Interesting hearing John Maclean's perspective in 1902 on what life was like for the working class in Scotland -

"That the class struggle is bitter we need only reckon the annual death toll of the workers, the maimed, the poisoned, the physically wrecked by overwork (...)"

"The mentally wrecked by worry, and those forced to suicide by desperation. It is a more bloody and more disastrous warfare than that to which the soldier is used. Living in slums, breathing poisonous and carbon-laden air, wearing shoddy clothes (...)"

"eating adulterated and life-extinguishing food, the workers have greater cause for a forcible revolution than had the French capitalists in 1789"

It's worth reading & taking note of this kind of commentary esp. when considering how hard life was for workers & families here

I think to an extent it is also a very modern way of looking at poverty & deprivation - note how he focusses on the effects on both physical & mental health from poor conditions & mistreatment both at the workplace & at home.

Though re: comments about pollution & food - note that the blame is not shifted onto the people suffering, as it has been in recent times, but rather the food has been adulterated & made "life extinguishing" - by capitalists