The workers lived in horribly dirty, over-crowded cities and apartments. Sometimes whole families lived in one or two rooms. They worked long hours doing the most difficult labor under very unsafe conditions. In extreme cases children as young as 6 years old worked in factories over 12 a day. In textile factories workers spent all day in unventilated rooms breathing in dust and lint. This led to the outbreak of respiratory disease like tuberculosis and pneumonia which spread throughout the factories killing many workers as little as possible (chrildren and women got paid much leds) and gave no benefits to workers who became sick or who were hurt on the job.