The workers' and tenant farmers' discontent with their social and economic problems was growing; workers still had to work an average of ten hours per day, and the tenant farmers still rented their lands from the landowning peasants, and they could be expelled from those lands if they did not fulfill their contracts' quite strict conditions.
The workers' and tenant farmers' discontent stemmed from their social and economic hardships, including long working hours for the workers and the precarious situation of tenant farmers under restrictive land contracts.