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 …show more content…
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 …show more content…
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
The Industrial Revolution brought awful working conditions to those who worked in factories and elsewhere. Working conditions for adults and kids were drudgery. “I am at work in a spinning room tending four sides of warp which is one girl’s work” (Document 1) People were expected to do hard work each day no less. If there was a break it was limited, people were not treated fairly. Breaks were ideally rare in majority of the jobs.
Factory Working Working in the 1800’s was hard and was very dangerous, by the mid 1800’s America was using machines to produce most things such as clothing, shoes, watches, , guns, and farming machines. The workers would work an average of 11.4 hours a day. The workers were very tired. The factories were very rugged and dangerous, there were fast rapidly moving parts exposed and that cuased many accidents with adults and children.
A male factory employee familiar with his female coworkers noted that many women still had children at a young age, during their teenage years (Doc 4). Women also tended to have a large number of children, common when peasants worked on farms and needed as many bodies to help tend to the animals as they could get. However, since women now worked in an urban setting outside of the home, conflicts arose when they needed to care for young children. This led to small children being brought to work with their mothers, although this usually occurred with women working in fields, not factories, given the harmful environment of the factories (Doc 1). While women worked outside of the home and earned money for themselves and their families during the Industrial Revolution, they continued to have several children, and act as the prime caregiver, as they had prior to the
The Industrial Revolution created to change that ruined people's lives. They worried about financing, getting rid of jobs, and overworking the workers, those are all certain ways people were affected by the industry
Early industrial working conditions were very poor and consisted of low wages, long hour and low safety (Ideology in History
Working conditions during the Industrial Revolution were unhealthy and dangerous for the low-skilled workers. This is seen most prominently in Joseph Hebergam’s 1832 testimony before Parliament, where in response
Before Industrialization took over our lives, the pace of change in a preindustrial society was relatively slow. The Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in the way modern life was lived, it is a time period that greatly increased the output of machine made goods instead of man made goods made by craftsmen. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, the quality of life was improved. This way of life, made it easier for civilians, a new concept of supply and demand was emerging due to the rapid population growth. Ordinary craftsmen who had their own shop never felt the need to rush production because they were not getting business at a high rate.
Before the the industrial revolution work and family were basically the same thing. Work was based around home and the family life. After the revolution began families were taken out of the home and put into factories for mass production of goods and services. Families were split because of the demands of the factories. To maximize production hours were lengthened to meet requirements.
The Industrial Revolution was a horrific time in the 1700s by the fact that it caused bad pollution and children would be worn out at the end of their work day. The greatest aspect of industrialization was that the kids and adults had good surroundings. “Of these there are 500 children who are entirely fed, clothed, and educated by Mr.Dale” (Document 6). The quote is evidence that shows the kids were well cared for.
So my main question today is what are the working conditions like during the industrial revolution? Working during the industrial revolution had no laws existed, therefore working in a factory can be very dangerous. Some industries such as cotton trade are hard for workers to work for long hours of labor. The conditions of a normal factory had to be very hot as we are using steam engines every day.
Before industrialization, conditions in the workplace were not as terrible as they would become. Most families lived in rural areas and were farmers. They had the privilege to work outside everyday in the crisp, clean air. Typically, they all make their money by growing and selling their crops.
1. In the 1700’s family life changed drastically because of the industrial revolution. One of the most important was now families lived and worked. A family that was used to working together on a land with their animals and paying their own way was changed drastically for both men and women and even children were set out to work in the factories to make a living now.
Child labor was a great problem in the Industrial Revolution. Factory owners usually hired women and children rather than men. They said that men expected higher wages, and they suspected that they were more likely to rebel against the company. Women and children were forced to work from six in the morning to seven at night, and this was when they were not so busy. They were forced to arrive on time and they couldn’t fall behind with their work because if they did they were whipped and punished.
The Industrial Revolution changed the family in many ways, like location, quality of life/appearance, and what children did for fun. Families that lived in the villages or country side had to move to the city and leave old traditions behind because the city was crowded and dirty compared to the country side where the air was clean and there was room to run and play. Before the industrial time, families would tend their own gardens, worked from home or a small shop, and raised a few farm animals; in other words, they were their own boss working at their own pace. It was a clean place with all the family well dressed. When the Industrial revolution first started, there were no law to regulate or rules to structure, so children as young as
The industrial revolution created an age of wonder for the rich but also created a nightmare for the workers powering the industrial revolution. The period of rapid industrial growth during the 1800s and into the early 1900s was more harmful because of poor working conditions, violent labor disputes and poor regulations at factories. The businessmen of the industrial revolution created poor working conditions for men and women just