What transformations occurred once factories organized life and work? Did changes equally affect men, women, and children?

Socialists deplored economic inequalities, as represented by the vast difference in wealth between a captain of industry and a factory laborer, and they con-demined the system that permitted the exploitation of labor-eras, especially women and children. Early socialists sought to expand the Enlightenment understanding of equality: they understood equality to have an economic as well as a political, legal, and social dimension, and they looked to the future establishment of a just and equitable society. Although most socialists shared this general vision, they held very different views on the best way to establish and maintain an ideal socialist society.