Factory and social reform

Question 1

Conditions

Answer 1

industrial rev brought new machines - longer working hours and dangers
children as young as 6 worked in factories
lost limbs

men cut coal
women carried coal
children managed the minecarts
many lost limbs when crushed with minecarts

Question 2

why did people want reform

Answer 2

public were horrified about conditions
shocked about women and children
girls carrying over 150kg coal

Question 3

why were some against it

Answer 3

laissez-faire politics led people believe the job was a contract between factory owner and worker, the government should not be involved.

Question 4

problems with the acts

Answer 4

workers didnt support as it would limit money going to them
did not cater for all workers
poor relief did not aid all

Question 5

names of philanthropists

Answer 5

Shaftetsbury - religous
Robert OWen - introduced 8 hour day
Chadwick - saw link between poor sanitation and disease like chollera