The capitalist economy.
In a capitalist economy, individuals own property and make most of the decisions about how to use it. The new Industrial economy had its perks, but it also brought new problems. Many poor people left their farm life in hopes to find work in the cities. The jobs that these people found offered nothing more than hardship, danger, long hours, an low wages. Women, Men and even Children often suffered up to 16 hours a day. An English poet, William Blake once visited factories in which he described as "Dark Satanic Mills." For many workers in 1900, their conditions at home were often times worse than they were at work. Many workers lived in over crowded tenements in neighborhoods that were filled with disease, filth, and also crime. With so many people migrating to the cities, landlords tried to fit as many people in to these tenements that they could. The people who were unfortunate enough to live in the attics set out buckets to catch the rain , and those in cellars had to use umbrellas to deflect the constant drips. In most large cities in the 1900's, the death rate was greater than the birth rate. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke declared in 1905, "Lost and doomed are the cities, and their short spell seeps away."