At the start of the Industrial revolution, the average person worked in appalling conditions and had a strong want of power in the western world. Workers who lived in the countryside migrated to the city in search of jobs that often required manual labor or intense circuit work. The factories and mills in which they worked in smelt horrible with temperatures above twenty-seven degrees.  Not only were there bad hygiene conditions but the average person worked more than seventy hours a week. Some workers weren't even paid with money but with "truck." This was like a coupon the worker could use to buy something from their boss's shop. As the Industrial revolution went on, the workers felt hopeless as they had no power to negotiate. The workers tried many things to get the attention of the government but were repeatedly unsuccessful. That was until a railway strike in 1911 and the miners strike in 1912 (both of which were highly successful with a handful of participants) meant that the government had to listen to the voice of the workers. Five days later, a new law rushed through parliament which introduced minimum wage. This being a wage that was the least amount of money a worker could get.