Was industrialization more beneficial for workers or employers?

The industrialization era created huge change in American society. Most noticeably  it changed the way labor was handled. Machinery invented made production surge, causing the rise of factories. The operations of the machines replaced many jobs that people depended on. The machines were able to do the jobs more efficiently and quickly. The immediate effect was that employees that once had jobs to pay for their bills, no longer did. Workers became less valuable because there were better workers that required less. People who worked in the American Woolen Company(AWC) experienced this first hand. Their employer decreased their pay to only just enough for four loaves of bread. In response, the workers walked out and went on strike. This event gained national attention because it showed a reoccurring problem happening in modern society. More jobs were valued less making the fight for labor rights much harder. Industrialization gave employers less of a need to respect and protect labor rights that people should have. Although not a direct cause, industrialization allowed employers to side step much of labor progress.