Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Quarter 2- Assignment 1: London Factory Worker (I.Iannotti)
My whole life I have lived with enemies. Enemies of every shape and size imaginable for a person, but for the first time in my life, my enemy is not a person at all. My enemy is a loud, dirty, violent machine in a cold, disgusting place. A place where I happen to spend at least twelve hours a day, six or seven days a week. The work is exhausting, and the picture in my mind of limbs and fingers being sliced off in a second is one that I will never forget. I hear their screams, but I can do nothing about it. My only breaks are when the factory owner allows, and with my current record of not being a perfect factory worker, my breaks are not very frequent. I can feel my hearing fade away as well, as the deafening machines take it out of me slowly with everyday I spend in that place. However, my hearing isn't all that is slipping away. The polluted air that I breathe every single day suffocates me with a firm grip, as if this very factory wants to make it even more clear that it owns me. The factory is the reason I am alive, but it is also the reason I am dying. The idea that some people of Britain believe that this Industrial Revolution is helping everyone makes me sick. This revolution has ruined my life, taken the life of others, and although the concept seems beneficial, this revolution will ruin the lives of lower class people over the world, and very fast.
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(Karl Marx)
ReplyDeleteYour life is indeed tough my friend. One could say that the Industrial Revolution made your lives worse! You risk your life every day to provide your family with whatever they need. The revolution is only benefitting the higher classes because the money you're providing them with. I would like to see the king come down to a mill and work as hard as you all do. Everyone should be paid and treated equally. More work less pay is no way to treat someone in which your business relies on! Equal work, equal pay, equality.
London Factory Worker (Nick DiBiasio)
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you, as I am in the same profession. As you stated above, us factory workers are working almost sixteen hours a day, six days a week in harsh, polluted environments. Some upper class citizens again are not seeing the whole picture of equality. They are too busy making money because of us and are not paying attention of us. One of these days, factory workers will revolt and these mill owners will have no more money coming in. We are the baseline of the money being produce hence we make most of the items in todays markets.
(Adam Smith) No one is forcing you to be in this job. You could easily get up and leave if you really wanted to. Complaining about how awful the working conditions are is not going to do anything- they cannot be fixed! You are aware of the dangers and risks of having this job. In the end, you are making money, and thats what jobs are supposed to do. No one said the job would be easy or fun. If it weren't for the industrial revolution, you would probably be out of work and starving on the streets!
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