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Connor P

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  • To these industrialists any money spent on employees meant less money for their own pockets. The connection between happy, healthy workers and high levels of productivity was not obvious during the revolution.
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    The underlined quote is the epitome of the higher management's philosophy. They knew to run a prosperous business, they must sacrifice the safety and wages of their employers. Thus the labor force was despensable so conditions and wages we as cheap as they could be
Connor P

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  • One reason was that a great number of unskilled laborers came to America at the time, so that employers could offer low wages for miserable jobs and always find someone willing to do the work.
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    The underlined quote shows that the unskilled labor source fueled the fire of the early 20th century labor and they were at the demands of the bosses. They are symbolic to breeding animals as they are used for production and when they cannot, they are kicked to the curb. And the flow is in constant motions which allows the bosses to keep making the conditions worse and worse
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