1. Many workers were unhappy with the low wages and poor working conditions 2. Workers joined trade unions and organised strikes hoping to force government to improve pay and working conditions. By 1914, 3,000,000 workers has joined trade unions. 3. A new political party the social democratic party (SPD) became popular with the workers 4. Some socialists took a more extreme approach and wanted to rebel against the Kaisers rule and start a revolution to replace the Kaisers with groups of workers.