I wanna ask you all a serious question “Would you make your own child work in poor conditions?” Nowadays in the 21st century, the control and treatment of workers has gotten much better showing more of a caring and careful treatment towards them, and the decision to do it that way was done for the best. During the 1800s, many young children and others received jobs at Textile Factories; what the children didn’t know were all the hard times they’d have to deal with, The pollution of the air, the intense heat temperatures, the many brutal accidents such as ripped skin and muscles, and nobody batted an eye on it and just continued on like it was a normal thing. Seeing how dangerous and hazardous it can be, it’s pretty obvious when I say, Textile …show more content…
In the House of Lords interview with Dr. Ward, Ward says the following “Last summer I visited three cotton factories with Dr. Clough of Preston and Mr. Barker of Manchester and we couldn’t remain 10 minutes in the factory without gasping for breath.” (1819) In John Birley’s newspaper article, he describes his time at the textile factories. Birley described many horrid experiences like “He’d beat us with a knob-stick till we could scarely crawl” (1818) and “They’d bring us supper. We were hungry but we couldn’t eat it. It was Derbyshire oatcake and it tasted as sour as vinegar,” (1818) he’s basically stating the food they were given was very bad. Also, in Joseph Hebergam’s Testimony with the Sadler Committee, Sadler asks after finding out Joseph’s trip to the doctors, “Did he tell you the cause of your illness?” and Joseph’s response was “He told me that it was caused by the dust in the factories and from overwork and insufficient diet…” All of this information was told by real people who’re really workers of textile …show more content…
Ward’s information it’s believable since he was the doctor of Manchester for 30 years and he treated many children that were injured or sick. Ward’s personal experience makes his statements stand out since he knows and he has seen how factory life is like. As for John and Joseph, they’re the most believable sources to get this kind of information from because both those men have literally experienced all that has been mentioned bad about textile factories. Both men were once workers, they may be different people, but both had the same kind of story, on how the job of working in a textile factory is very hazardous.
Although the treatment of workers was not the greatest, it at least kept the workers working and well-fed. Being given harsh consequences for doing wrong actually is quite an effective way of keeping people straighten out and obedient. Even though the job itself was very dangerous, working at the textile factories at least made it able for workers to get food on the table for their family. The treatment could have been much worse, so it was nice to know they at least did treat their workers with some kind of
Although many people were being employed and paid, working conditions were very hazardous and payment was unfair. Workers would work twelve to eighteen hours a day, but got poorly paid by their
Dangerous working conditions were commonly found in U. S. Steel's factories. People would get injured from harmful machinery and get sick from the bad air in circulation, which was ironic, because hid father was part of a union fighting for better working
In the industrial age many laws were enacted as of late, because of the rise and fall of companies taking power from government and state, many laws common place in the modern world, at that time were slowly gaining weight and of the time were detritus to the human society. As of what Elizabeth Bentley was questioned on, “C: You are considerably deformed in person as a consequence of this labor? B: Yes I am" (doc. 7). Kids working in the factories, one by one, suffered the consequences, and melancholy atmosphere that had personified the liabilities upon their human nature, burning through the skin, the bones, and the muscle that worked long hours, for the minimal sum. That minimal sum would only be a small fraction of the amount needed to feed and pay the expenses of the family.
The factories were also not heated or cooled so the workers would get very hot or very cold. Back then there were no laws to protect the lives of the workers and most of the time the factory owners cared meore about the making of money than the employies which also didn’t help with the saftey issues. There were
The amount of time most adults worked was beyond unhealthy, but, what made it worse was that kids as young as nine were sent into the mill to work 6 1/2 hours. This was from Document G as Document G also described that adults were working more than 12 hours a day in warm, and damp air in the factories. Being in warm and damp conditions for half of a day every day is beyond miserable for the body physically and mentally. Many sicknesses were passed as a result from this which resulted in many deaths. It was clear that the health of most adults were detoriating, but it was still ultimately decided to put kids to work like adults even though children generally are not as healthy as adults.
My source is reports of inspectors at factories during the industrial revolution, these reports were written in 1863. The inspectors wrote about prosecutions within the factory. I trust this report because I think it is significantly important these prosecutions were made in 1863 during the time period these harsh conditions were being demanded and they were made by people who either witnessed or took part in these actions. This is proving my working thesis considering how the brutal conditions were a negative
Many kids and adults had to work all day on their feet and never really got time to relax and go home. they had to work for hours in machines which could make people sick because there were pollutions and other chemical that gave people health problems and they may sometimes have died because maybe they couldn’t afford to go to the doctors because, workers in the factories didn’t really get pay that much because of how they work for long times . according to Document 2 it explains “ the hour labor was from 6 to t night; it was very difficult work “as a result, even though many people work they couldn’t afford to buy much food for their family and barely saw their kids and have a time to enjoy each other. Also there were many people adult that could no longer work and manger would offer little kids to work at a very younger age and didn’t have to go to school. Many girls who work had to tie their hair back because it would be catch on the machines.
Although some negatives like working with dangerous equipment and working endless hours were a part of working in a factory, there were some positives as well. While working, the workers would be able to socialize with each other while
There are countless examples of the horrible treatment that happened in the silk factories. One example from Document A states that worker had to pull threads off silkworm cocoons in hot water basins. Continually having someone's hands stuck in in hot water all day doesn’t seem the best. The worker’s hands could’ve gotten blisters or burns from the water and that isn’t very safe. Another example from Document F includes that inspection managers were sometimes physically abusive to the women.
Throughout both sources they go through inside their own opinions on Industrial labor during the 1830s. the primary source states to three testimonials of three different piers and their field they have mixed opinions on the situation staying their own alternatives towards child labor and the factory Act. While the secondary source stated if the early industrial society during the thirties was in a progress or in the decline. One could compare in contrast these two writings about Poor conditions and the industrial society.
On document C economist David A Wells compares the way that people worked in these factories to working in the military, because each worker was taught to perform one simple task. This took away from workers' pride in what they did. Mass production techniques led to the specialization of Labor decreasing the workers Drive and lowered their skill level making them relatively easy to replace and become unemployed. Document G entitled "What Does Labor Want?" by Samuel Gompers shows how workers were unmotivated to continue their work. Gompers states that people should not be considered property and adds that the mass production techniques being used were dehumanizing.
The workers were often subjected to sweltering heat in the summer and frigid conditions in the winter. But, that was not it, at the time there were no laws in place that required businesses to ensure their employees' safety, and this regularly lead to many injuries and fatalities in the workplace on a daily basis. There was not a single work place that did not have injured or mutilated employees, and this was due to the unsafe working conditions of the factories, “Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle-rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him out of the world; all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the acid, one by one… There were men who worked in the cooking rooms… in these rooms the germs of tuberculosis might live for two years, but the supply was renewed every hour.” (109).
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 labor during the 18th and 19th century did not only rapidly develop an industrial revolution, but it also created a situation of difficulty and abuse by depriving children of edjucation, good physical health, and the proper emotional wellness and stability. In the late 1700 's and early 1800 's, power-driven machines replaced hand labor for making most manufactured items. Many of America 's factories needed a numerous amount of workers for a cheap salary. Because of this, the amount of child laborers have been growing rapidly over the early 1800s.
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.