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I have strong feelings about the unsafe working conditions in the 1800’s and the 1900’s. I feel that the things people had to go through each day were not only too physically demanding, but mentally demanding as well. They were forced to do un-human things to keep themselves and their families alive. I am going to share these things with you as well as what could we do to prevent this. First let me give you a little background on a sweatshop; where most of what I'm talking about happens. *The World Book Encyclopedia defines Sweatshop as a term for a makeshift factory where poverty-stricken people worked at top speed for 12 or more hours a say in an effort to earn a living wage. These sweatshops were not that big of a problem until 1880, when large numbers of immigrants began to come to America. Who could cause all these problems? Big factory owners, that’s who. Sweatshop owners took advantage of the immigrant’s ignorance and poverty and successfully got them to work for very low wages, o