There were many job opportunities in New York, most of them being factory jobs. Factories in the early 1900’s were not the same as factories are today. Very dangerous machinery combined with underage workers did not make for very safe working conditions. Accidents causing deaths were very common, even more so than in today’s factories. In the Asch building, an average work day was twelve hours long and employees made a dollar and a half a week. That’s about equivalent to 38 dollars today. (Newman and