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Name Professor’s Name Subject Date Industrial Revolution Document Analysis The regimentation of daily life that characterized industrial society has quite elaborately been discussed in the two documents. The information provides quite insightful knowledge on how tough the lives of the industrial workers had been in the 19th century. It is interesting to note that in today's progressive environment the regimentation of such type is difficult to imagine. The entire life of the industrial workers has been controlled by means of strict rules and regulations that were completely concentrated on getting the maximum work being done without caring for even the basic necessities of the workers. It can be argued that their life had been extremely difficult and they were deprived of their basic human rights (Brissette et al). Starting from the Factory rules in Berlin, according to the rules, the normal working day of the factory workers started at 6 am in the early morning in all seasons and ended at 7 pm. This comprised of 13 hours of work with very little breaks in between. The workers according to the rules have not been allowed to discuss any issue that they had with respect to the remuneration or the fines imposed on them on being late or any other problem if it was of the genuine nature. The workers were not allowed to leave their workplaces except for the work related reason. If a worker had any personal problem, he had to face fines to leave the workplace. The workers at the workplace were not allowed to communicate with each other in any situation. The conversion between workers was considered extremely undesired. All the instructions that overseer and the
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