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Introduction: Industrial Revolution was a time when, mass production took place in England around 1790 and ended in 1870. They employed children because they were small, they could pay them less money, and therefore made more profit themselves. The conditions of the factories were not good for the children and it had a smell that was unbearable. The dust, soot and oil suffocated them half of the time, they were whipped for sitting down, suffered from thirst and hunger, and many more disturbing things. The children would get injured often when fingers were crushed and arms were broken, some girls got black marks on their skin from being whipped several times.
The factories had very poor infrastructure during that time and the only light present in the factories back then was sunlight. Also, various industries like coal industries used to hire children as their tiny hand could easily scrap out coal from the narrow openings from the mine walls. Then tobacco industries preferred children as their tiny hands were used to roll cigarettes properly. Poor families had always made the most of whatever employment opportunities existed for their children, and those living through the industrial revolution did no differently when presented with the same choice.
“During the 1800s there were few laws in Britain regulating the employment of children,” (Document#7). In the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, there were few to none laws controlling how long or under what conditions anyone worked, even kids. In spite of the horrible working conditions for all, workers were to be flooded with beneficial change in a few decades. In The Working Man’s Companion, it is written “you are surrounded… with an infinite number of comforts and conveniences which had no existence two or three centuries ago,” (Document #9). After years of horrid working conditions, worker unions were formed to create new laws for employers.
Child labor was a big issue involved with the Industrial Revolution. Families in the lower classes had jobs working the machines in factories. Usually, each worker got payed about $4-5 a week. Document 1 is a conversation that took place and it was kind of like a job interview and William Cooper, the worker, described how harsh life was in the factories. He began to work in factories when he was about ten years old and he worked from 5 am to 9pm.
Labor in the Industrial Revolution was dangerous for children because the children were abused by employers and overlookers, they were deprived of their childhood, and injuries were very common. Child abuse in the workplace was common during the Industrial Revolution. Children were affected either mentally, or physically by their employers and overlookers. This was stated in Document C, “The sons and a man named Swann, the overlooker, used to go up and down the mill with sticks. Frank once beat he till frighten himself.”
Children at the young age of nine were eligible to work in the factories during the Industrial Revolution. These children were forced to work nine hours a day, for a daily wage of thirty cents. During the Industrial Revolution, there was a common pattern of child labor throughout mills and factories. The Industrial Revolution changed the way people produced and consumed products, along with their jobs and the way they worked. The Industrial Revolution took place in the late seventeen hundred, and it originated in Great Britain.
Therefore, the innovative Industrial Revolution was an enormous improvement throughout Great Britain, regardless of the negativities it caused. The Revolutionary act in 1780 in England would not have been fulfilled without the help of hundreds of men, women, and children sparing dangerously long hours in factories or mines. Even though the work was tough, these people were essential in the rise of the Industrial Revolution. Document one of the evidence exemplifies the use of child labor in England, through a simple interview.
During the Industrial Revolution, the use of child labor increased in factories due their small size, which allowed them to move in small spaces where adults couldn’t fit. Also, children were easier to control than adults and could be paid a lot less. In Document 2 it states
One of the negative factors regarding the Industrial Revolution in our society is child labor. Children were taken out of there homes to work in factories and farms.
In the 1800s the working conditions were terrible. Many people were getting hurt, mostly children. Young children worked underground in coal mines and operated machines. They worked 6 days a week and 12 or more hours a day. Many of the machines had rapidly moving parts with caused even more accidents than the weather.
Children were forced to work because of the circumstances the society was in. Children worked long dangerous hours in scarce factory work conditions for very little pay. Children on the countryside decided working in the fields as well as
Good morning to all! Today I will be talking about the working conditions during the industrial revolution. Well to start, the industrial revolution took place from the 18th century to the 19th century. The industrial revolution originally began in Britain in the late 1700s. To sum it up, The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes.
