cities were incredibly polluted, people worked 6 days a week 12+ hour days 6 days a week from dawn to dusk was and still is the norm for farmers and farm hands but factory work was/is different in that people were expected to be machines that worked at 100% efficiency for their entire shift, if you slow down too much the entire production line can break, factory owners wanted everything working as fast as possible for that $$$. farm work comparatively has a spectrum of really hard work, medium intensity work, and easy/low effort work and a lot of short breaks. if factory owners saw you had it easy they would simply run the production line quicker until you can barely keep up. it's still like that in a lot of factories, but at least automation machines have automated a lot of the heavy lifting. it's funny the anti-communists of today would 100% turn communist if they worked in similar factory conditions, or hell if they worked in amazon warehouses today. people act like america is anti-communist because of the american people and culture and not simply because the capital owners won against the workers.
Australia