Women, blacks and Children who were employed to work in factories were paid a very low income because factory owners so them as cheap labor who had no experience and shouldn't be paid as more as Adult white males where paid.
The Women and Children who were mostly Blacks were seriously exploited and manhandled by their employers at the factory. they had no worker incentive and they were even paid lower than the average Minimum wage. the white Adult male workers at the factory where the highest paid and because of the high pay, most factory owners turned towards employing children and women to do the same job at a very low pay.
1. Monopolies were among the first business entities the U.S. government attempted to regulate in the public interest
2. Consolidation of smaller companies into bigger ones enabled some very large corporations to escape market discipline by "fixing" prices or undercutting competitors.
