#fun fact! Andrew Carnegie’s steel mills had a 25% mortality rate for workers and shifts were 12 hours 7days per week! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

opisasodomite · 1 year ago

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I’m reading a book about the Gilded Age and let me just say, given the choice between living in the 19th or the 18th century, if you don’t want to die in a boiler explosion, pick the 18th for the love of god

#fun fact! Andrew Carnegie’s steel mills had a 25% mortality rate for workers and shifts were 12 hours 7days per week!#also life expectancy and average heights and infant mortality all got WORSE in the 19th century #every single decade except the last #life expectancy in the US among other stats only returned to their 18th century baseline in the 20th century #with real improvements coming only mid century onwards #the bleakest thing is that for most people alive today this is the best and most comfortable life has literally ever been #that’s pretty… bad lmfao #and it is much more comfortable! but we’re at constant risk of backsliding or it all collapsing under the weight of itself and climate #cool!#anyway just wanted to share that lmao

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