Effects of Industrialization on Working Conditions European industrial advances focused on production rather than the treatment of industrial workers. This included intolerable hours, poor working conditions and living conditions for families (The Social Question in Coffin et.al, 465). The intolerable conditions of industrialization in the 19th century were called the social question, which concerned socialist thinkers. Industrial Revolution thinkers, Robert Owen and Flora Tristan realized the problems of industrial progress and proposed a solution to address them. Owen was a socialist, who created a utopian society for his workers because he felt that the workers' negative behaviors reflected their poor surrounding environments. Flora Tristan was a French socialist writer and feminist who argued that unfair treatment of women leads to corrupt treatment of workers' status, because women influenced the functioning of the family. Socialist thinkers Owen, author of A New View of Society, and Tristan, author of “Workers Your Condition… is Miserable and Distressing,” observed the poor conditions of industrialization during the 19th century and determined theories explained by the social question. The proposed solutions focused on the impact of the family unit on workers, each thinker's action plan intended to address the social issue, and how these theories were thought to improve the quality of life through action in their documents. Owen and Tristan argued that the poor The dysfunctionality of the working class family unit had an impact on adults, which later affected their children. They argued that the poor conditions of the social issue were linked to gender roles within a family. Owen observed bad ah...... middle of paper....... Owen and Tristan provided action as part of their solutions in order to benefit the conditions of the workers and the problems highlighted by the social issue. Poor working and living conditions were just some of the major concerns during the industrial revolution of the 19th century. The concerns were addressed by socialist thinkers Owen in his paper A New View of Society and Tristan author of “Workers Your Condition… is Miserable and Distressing,” who noted the negative impact the industrial revolution had on workers. Therefore Owen and Tristan proposed solutions to alleviate these concerns of industrialization through observing the impacts of households, providing a solution to society's problem and providing means to improve the lives of society's workers. Owen and Tristan addressed major societal concerns caused by the industrial revolution.