They wanted safer working conditions and shorter workdays.
Explanation:
Around the middle of the 19th century, workers started organizing themselves in labor unions in the hope to solve the problems that arose with the Industrial Revolution.
<u>The main issues that they fought for were</u>
<u>solving the economical problems -</u><u> fighting against low wages and underpaid jobs</u>; as industry was taking over, workers were starting to be put in the back compared to technology and machines, so the labor force was often underpaid
<u>safe working conditions</u> - <u>the injures in factories and other manual labor places were quite common,</u> and workers wanted to make sure they had safe condition in which to work
<u>shorter workdays </u>-<u> the workdays before Industrial revolution could go from 10 to even 16 hours, and usually 6 days in a week were workdays. </u>Only in 1817. workers started fighting for the 8-hour workday as we know it today under the slogan "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours' recreation, Eight hours' rest"
