After the working hours are over, he and Rachael go back to home. Stephen complains to her that his life is in muddle because he gets no advantage in the development and wealth of the city that are created by the workers" labors. Their lives are hopeless and have only death. No one, including the master who prospers by using the workers" labors, cares or gives importance to them. They still suffer the hardship in their lives and works. When he arrives at his home, he meets his helpless and drunken wife who scolds him. His wife shows the condition of the workers who face the trouble and solve their problems in the wrong way. In addition, when Slackbridge, the leader of union strike, opposes the capitalist like Bounderby, and Stephen refuses to join the strike fighting for freedom and for the right of workers because he sees that strike can't do anything good but increases the tension between the workers and master, so he is accused of betraying the union and be comes an outcast. Dickens comments that the union doesn't really understand its members. Slackbridge stimulates the workers" feelings and disunites the workers" relationship. The contrast between Slackbridge and Stephen" characters increase the sympathy to Stephen Blackpool. Slackbridge is cunning, not honest, not manly, not good- humored, but he is accepted among the workers and has influence on them by using their simplicity, innocence and desire for safe. On the contrary, being an honest man because he doesn't accept the union" s proposal that contradicts to the factory of his master, Bounderby, he is refused and shunned by his fellow workers and ostracized. Here, Dickens comments that mass is submissive, agrees to the leader's rules and lack individuality, so they don't know that what is right or wrong and just follow others. Although he must be a stranger and shunned by his fellow workers, he won't be angry with them and understands them that they have weaknesses and misconception.