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the typical worker in those days was a farmer:

12 to 16 hours of backbreaking work 7 days a week.

in the cities it was only 12 hours a day for 6 and 1/2 days a week.

They both were on starvation wages ... if they got paid at all.

the typical worker in those days was a farmer:

12 to 16 hours of backbreaking work 7 days a week.

in the cities it was only 12 hours a day for 6 and 1/2 days a week.

They both were on starvation wages ... if they got paid at all.

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It was bad. They had to make or hunt for everything they needed like (furniture, clothes, and food). When you had to wash clothes you had to go the river. To have food they had to plant it or go hunting to get the food. People moved with there family from place to place across America a lot.

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