The textile factories were an unsafe and unheathly place for working class families to work.These factories were unsafe for children to work because the factories would over work the children,give them a insuffient diet and the factories were filled with diseases.For example a testimony from Joesph Hebergram to the Sadler committee he said; ‘i have damged lunges. my lgs muscles do not function properly and will not support the weight of my bones...the doctor told me that it was caused by dust in the factory,from being over worked and a insufficient diet.’this shows that the factories were an unsafe place for working class because they over work their employes and do not give a proper diet.This evidence shows first hand evidence of what happened
I believe Robert Owen's ideas offered the most hope for improving the industrialized world in the 1900s. During this time there were new fascinating technological advancements. However, with these advancements came issues. People were forced to work in horrible conditions, and big factories meant more people needed to work long hours for a low pay. Robert was disgusted when he saw this, so in 1799, him and his business partners bought the New Lanark textile mills.
The working condition of Durham’s meat-packing and fertilizer industries are extremely hazardous. The industry floors are described as “half an inch deep with blood” (43), and workers have little to no protection. Jurgis, a determined worker, labors for the sake of providing for his family. Naive as he is, Jurgis does not understand the unforgiving nature of the industry until it is too late.
Have you ever thought of the endangerments your work puts you in? Muckrakers will deeply investigate in order to find the truth of different jobs and the risks they then threaten you with. In this article you will finally hear the inhuman evidence of steel mill working conditions. More than 60 deaths were caused by working under the harsh conditions in the past year. Men or even children were exposed to many dangers, such as being crushed by machines, being burned by molten iron, not being able to get enough oxygen because the air was hot and musty, and over exhaustion.
The workers often became injured, losing arms and skin, because they got caught in the machines. The long hours with no nutrition in the dust and smoke-filled air of the factories led to many deaths and illnesses. Although some factories did not display poor working conditions, most did, and child labor was also a serious problem in the factories because the owners often took advantage of the children's’ small and skinny bodies to do harmful machine work. In The Philosophy of Manufacture, Andrew Ure wrote that he had never seen beatings inflicted on children and that the children were always cheerful and alert. This statement is opinionated and not entirely true because when a person visits a factory,
Often times, six or more people were living together in one room, making it easy to transmit disease and other sicknesses. As for the conditions of the factories, they were also crowded and unsafe, and workers were barely paid enough to live. Soon the progressive leaders and other citizens realized that people could not reasonably live and work with the conditions. “And yet, in spite of this, there would be hams found spoiled, some of them with an odor so bad that a man could hardly bear to be in the room with them” (Doc. F).
Many of the working kids had lasting health issues because of working in the factories. “C: Do you know of anybody that has been similarly injured
Early industrial working conditions were very poor and consisted of low wages, long hour and low safety (Ideology in History
Beauty Doesn’t Come from within a Silk Factory Machines rumbling, tears falling, hands aching, this was the plight of the Japanese silk workers, during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution came to Japan in the 1800’s, according to the background essay reading: “The Industrial Revolution had a quiet beginning but by the mid-1800s the movement from farm to factory was producing an all-out ruckus - Steam engines belching, gears grinding, conveyor belts slapping. This was true in Europe, in America, and beginning in the 1880s, it was true in Japan,” (Silk Factories: DBQ: Background). During this time, many women were employed in silk factories. These jobs didn’t pay well and the conditions were poor.
Unsafe working conditions plagued next to, if not, all factories during industrialization. Thousands of workers grew ill or suffered injuries as a consequence of their labor, and would yield their jobs, surrendering their source of income. Taken in the early 1900s, “Lewis Hine’s picture depicts two children working on a very dangerous machine” (Document 8). The matter that children were allowed to manage these machines is awful enough, ignoring just how dangerous the machines were. In addition to this, the children did not appear to be well supervised, which made it all too easy for a disastrous injury to occur.
I think that English textile factories were bad for the health of the working class families because in Documents A and C it says that Children were getting hurt constantly, were beaten, over worked, and never had time to eat In document C, John Barley was abused and when someone came to interview them, they had to lie about their treatment , he also worked long hours and their breakfast was very little. When Birley was abused, his boss thought he was dead. When he went to go hit Birley, he quickly put his arm up to protect his head and his boss hit him with all his might. John had A broken elbow and marks. He said “ I bear the marks, and suffer pain from it to this day, and always shall as long as I live…” They also never got fed properly
Child cotton workers were exceedingly unhealthy /The state of the health of the cotton evidence factories for children is much worse than...in other employments. " In the document A :Dr.Ward source House of the Lords committee ,Dr.Ward said accidents were very often admitted to the rilmary through the children 's hands and arms getting caught in the machine. Children who labor in the mills are victims of frightful oppression and killing toll, they have often been crucially beaten by the spinners of the overlookers. This proves the unhealthy nature of the factory, since the children were getting their body parts caught in the machine and getting beaten,"turning crippled." "Last summer I visited three cotton factories with Dr.Clough of Preston and
child.¨But he didn't mention how difficult it was for the children that were working and what was really going on in the factories. Which makes these two argument inaccurate. In conclusion even if the workers were in good health, many people got hurt while working and in the environment in the factories are so unhealthy that in some cases these two reasons can lead to death to anyone who are working in
Conditions were hazardous and grueling. They worked long hours for little pay. Most of them could not read or write and they could not attend school because they needed to work. They suffered from malnutrition and exhaustion. They were innocent children that were locked up in factories, like they had committed a crime.
The time of when cotton factories were running was not safe for children or anyone for that matter. This was a time of hiring people to do the dirty work and get hurt. Children working at the mills were beaten, abused, malnourished, and much more. The cotton mills should have never existed with this kind of abuse happening inside the factories. The fact is that these mills were bad for the health of the workers both physically and mentally.
Child labor was a great concern in the Industrial revolution but very few people did something to stop it. Women and Children were forced to work more than 10 hours a day with only forty minutes to have lunch. Elizabeth Bentley once said that they didn’t have any time to have breakfast or drink anything during the day. They worked standing up and if they didn’t do their work on time they were strapped (whipped). Children were treating like they were not important, like they didn’t deserve a better life.