Pollution from the Industrial Revolution was very drastic after the huge increase of factories. According to the article “Polluting the Environment,” in the early 1900’s, pollution was so bad that people needed streetlights to see in the daytime! The pollution from the factories got into the water supply because most cities had bad sanitation. The pollution then caused an outbreak of a disease called typhoid fever that infected many people.
After the big increase of factories happened, more workers were needed, so what better thing to do than call upon the almighty children. “Making Human Junk,” a poster created by Lewis Wickes Hine (1913-1914), shows how children are taken in perfect and happy, go through the process of working for awhile, then come out dirty, unhappy, and without a future. Essentially, “human junk.”
Not only children are workers. Men work too, providing for their family so that they can live. An accident report by Paul Underwood Kellogg (1916), 60% of dead workers had not reached their point of working life, meaning most were children. Also, Allegheny County had lost over 500 workmen every year. That’s around 40 workers every month which ends up being around 1 worker every day. That’s a lot of deaths, almost too much. Not only lives were they losing, but also human power.
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