During the industrial revolution, “wage slaves” worked in factories. These factories had horrible working conditions. The workers were forced to work thirteen or fourteen hours a day. They would be slaves if they weren’t getting paid – hence the name “wage slaves”. There were young children and adults, all of them women. The women didn’t know that what went on in the factories was wrong. They didn’t like

The conditions at all, but they didn’t complain too much because they thought it was normal.

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, Miss Bartlett, “wage slaves”, workers forced thirteen, forced thirteen, workers forced, thirteen day, bad conditions,