How and where people had worked had its effects on the people of both time periods. For slaves, during the feudal times, the only available job was to work in the fields as field hands for their lord’s land or house. Ordinary lower classmen took on jobs like carpentry, blacksmith, sewing, weaving, baking, and farming. However, whatever occupation they chose, it was still long, hard, and exhausting work. During the Industrial Revolution, agricultural occupations like these still existed. Although these jobs might have been made easier because of technological evolution, people still worked in fields and in homes. H

Although their locations were different, homes of both periods had their share of horrific living conditions. An entire family would sleep in one bed often in the same room in huts while several families might share one apartment building. Beds were made of straw and were infested by insects and rats. Peasants often let their animals live in the huts to provide warmth, since it was too dangerous to light a fire. Their floor was dirt. Fortunately for those who lived in high-rise apartments, they had hard wood floors. However, they too had to share rooms and beds. Both types of housing in both eras had poor ventilation. Windows were very small or non-existent, so rooms were smoky and the air was dank. Rooms were cold, damp and dark. In both worlds, rooms were freezing during the winter and sweltering in the summer. The pure atmosphere of a hut, apartment, or cellar was sickening.

The people feudal and industrial times also shared their similarities and differences in not only their working conditions, but also their living conditions. The types of homes they lived in were quite different. In the feudal age, people lived in one or two room huts. These huts were only one story high and came in bunches in villages. While huts like these still existed in industrial times, in the city there were multistory apartment buildings and row houses, both of which were built back-to-back, conveniently close to factories where people worked. There were two to four rooms provided in each apartment. The poorest of families lived in one-room cellars of these buildings. Huts were made of fragile materials, mostly of wattle and daub. Roofs were thatched so they were easily destroyed. Feudal age huts had to be repaired or rebuilt almost every generation. The lord provided housing for peasants. Apartments and row houses were built clumsily and cheaply out of weak steel and lumber to provide quick housing for employees. So many people were moving to the city that homes had to be made quickly in order to provide housing for them.

In the Feudal period, manors, in which huts presided in, were very self-sufficient because of the food available from farming. However, food was still expensive, especially meat. This often led to starvation and peasants had to resort to eating seeds, acorns, tree bark and grass. This of course, was not always healthy. Nutrition was not always as good in the Industrial period either. Orphaned child workers were fed improperly. Some advanta

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