Nonsens. The industrial revolution was a difficult period compared to today but it wa a boon to workers, compared to the pre-capitalist era. Not surprisingly, many of pro-slavery southerners, such as George Fitzhugh, were explicitly socialist because of their disdaine for thrifty free laborers (who they insulted by calling "wage slaves").
Nonsense, back at you. Calling the ceaseless toil of five-year-olds and the flogging of tiny, exhausted children "difficult" is like calling slave life in antebellum Georgia "difficult." Life was a horror for these people. You try doing physical labor in the lightless depths of a coal mine, sixteen hours a day, with no hope, inadequate food, and no rest until death. Compared to the more measured labor of rural life, factory work was dire. I speak from experience as one who spent her formative years living and working on a farm with little machinery. Agricultural life is hard, but it is nothing compared to the suffering of industrial workers.