Working Conditions During The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution impacted the lives of many of Great Britain's citizens. The Industrial Revolution started in the year 1760 in Great Britain. The Revolution was the adaptation to new manufacturing of goods that started in Great Britain and eventually spread, making itself to the United States of America. Due to the Industrial Revolution, there was altogether a drastic change in society’s working conditions, living conditions, and family life.

There was a vast change in the danger of working conditions and the number of hours spent working from before the Industrial Revolution to during the Industrial Revolution. Working conditions during the Industrial Revolution were very dangerous, for those who worked in factories and mines. Workers

Before the Industrial Revolution, there was little risk of getting injured on the clock. Yes, coal mines were still very dangerous, but coal was not as much of a necessity as it became during the Industrial Revolution. Since there were very few factories before the Industrial Revolution, most families worked on a farm that they owned or rented.(kiger) The families that did not farm for a living often traded goods, there was not much risk for workers before the Industrial Revolution at all. Even with the continuous fear of injury while at work, factory workers and coal miners would spend up to 14 hours a day for six days a week. Now, while farmers were at such risk every day at work, the average hours of work were still the same as any factory worker or coal miner, 14 hours a day, six days a week. Therefore there was a slight change in working hours before and during the Industrial Revolution. For that reason, before the Industrial Revolution, coal miners only worked roughly 10-12 hours a day. Families mainly worked on farms together, they worked from sun up to sun down together as a family. Even though the

There was a general small-scale change in the lives of families and women from before and during the Industrial Revolution. Working families often worked close in proximity to each other. Husbands often left the family in search of better pay or safer jobs. First, children had to work sixteen-hour long days, six days a week. Subsequently, the number of long hours the children are working, there is no time for education. Middle-class children had access to education and culture. Working children were deprived of education. Secondly, working-class children had no time for culture, instead a constant cloud of worry due to dangerous work environments. Finally, families often were torn apart due to death, whether someone died working in hostile factories or was lost to cholera for many other reasons. Families changed immensely from life before the Industrial Revolution and during the Industrial Revolution. Before the revolution, families worked together on farms. There was very little danger of working before the Industrial Revolution compared to the dangerous risks of working during the Industrial Revolution. Another example, before the Industrial Revolution started, all children learned until age seven, and hours of work were similar both before and during the Industrial Revolution. Families who worked on the farm were their own bosses, they got