Social reforms during the Industrial Revolution PLEASE HELP?

[eagerswing208]

Could you please answer these questions, and/or send helpful link/sources:
1) Why was social legislation for working practices so difficult to introduce?
2) What reforms were the for enslaved peoples in the Americas, for mentail health patients and criminals?
3) What type of people were reforms?
4) What was the nature of revolt and the struggle for workers rights' and fairness for all citizens regardless of position, rank and wealth?


Thankyou!!

[spiffer1]

If you really seriously want answers to all of them, it would be better to separate each out as an individual question on its own right. Costs you more points, but, works better for the rest of us.
Answer to one is there was a glut of labour on the market and so industrialists (owners of the means of production) could hire and fire at will meaning they could control labour costs with the greatest of ease to them and the greatest of unease for their employees.