Question

in the late 1800s sweatshops and other factories were horrible places to work what evidence supports this point of view

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Sweatshops is a pejorative term used to identify a workplace with poor working conditions. In the 1800s and due to the Industrial Revolution, many people left the rural areas of the country to emigrate to the larger cities where factories offering jobs were located. These jobs paid low wages and the workplace was unhealthy with minimum or no safety at all. Some places really offered unhuman conditions, workers had to wor for long hours, there was not enough ventilation, and some factories even hired children.

Answer 2

Sweatshops and factories differed only on size, the former being smaller. In the late 1800s all factories were dirty, dangerous, noisy, had little light, little space, little fresh air. Workers had to be in that unhealthy environment working up to 16 hour a day sometimes. Accidents happened often, the workers developed chronic diseases because of how much time had to be there, the conditions of work were almost slave-like, with the work overwatch by punitive owners.