BUS-1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: American Union Of Associationists, Trade Union, Parental Leave
29 Apr 2020
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The industrial revolution is associated with rapid advances in machinery, transportation, and agriculture. Also associated with working conditions that were crowded, unpleasant, unsafe, and in some cases, lethal. (1) a fast-growing canadian population gave industrial business owners a large labour pool to choose from. High demand for labour to fuel rapid industrial growth, there was an even larger labour supply. (2) the invention of highly specialized assembly line jobs meant unskilled workers could fill these jobs. Adding these factors together along with business owners could largely dictate working conditions. These working conditions included 10 to 12 hour days doing repetitive and sometimes physically demanding tasks, usually for low pay. Many factories were crowded, with workers packed tightly around an assembly line or at production stations, often in dimly lit and poorly ventilated rooms. There was a widespread use of child labour because children could be paid less than adults.
