The economic gaps between laborers and large corporate owners expanded tremendously throughout the Gilded Age. To make a livelihood, workers continued to suffer poor salaries and hazardous working conditions. Big company owners, on the other hand, lived opulent lives. While industrialization increased job opportunities, it also resulted in bad working conditions for the expanding industrial labor force. Workers were compelled to labor in hazardous conditions among heavy machinery. Unskilled laborers required little training and conducted basic duties. They also worked long hours for poor pay.
