Factory And Social Reform

Question 1

1750

Answer 1

-the industrial revolution began and saw the movement of manufacture from the hike to factory’s

Question 2

Factory Conditions

Answer 2

• dangerous machinery in factories children would often lose limbs
• worked up to 16 hrs a day

Question 3

Mines

Answer 3

-children as young as 4 worked as trappers in dark conditions up to 12 hrs a day
—many lost legs had to open door for carts and ventilation
-carbon monoxide levels high

Question 4

Factory Act of 1833

Answer 4

Factory acts

• no children under 9 could work in factories
• children under 13 had to attend school for 2hrs a day
• 4 inspectors across whole country to ensure this would be installed
• children 9-13 work no more than 48 hrs a week

Question 5

1834 Poor Law Amendment Act

Answer 5

• law put more pressure on workers because if they complained or could not make enough money they were put into workhouses
• families could be separated and lives ruined

Question 6

Mines Act of 1842

Answer 6

Mines act

• women and children under 10 could not work underground
• no children under 15 can be in charge of winding machinery

Question 7

Michael Sadler Mp

Answer 7

• motivated by terrible conditions that women and children worked in and treatment
• suggested maximum working 10hrs a day for those under 18

Question 8

Robert Owen and new Lanark

Answer 8

-owner of mill in Scotland
-new Lanark was town he set up with social club and no alchohol
-successful town visited by mPs and royal family
-socialists who believe in equality and treated workers well
-1810 achieved 8 hr working day
-1816 opened school
‘8 hrs work,8hrs recreation, 8hrs rest’

Question 9

Edwin Chadwick

Answer 9

-write report on the sanitary conditions do the labouring population
-showed the link between poor housing and outbreak of diseases such as cholera
-however he was responsible for reform of poor law which sent people to workhouses
‘The formation of all habits go cleanliness is obstructed by defective supplies of water’

Question 10

Elizabeth Fry

Answer 10

• set up school in Newgate prison
• strict Quaker Christian
• brother in law Mp and raised issue in parliament as a result prisons were reformed and the treatment of women on transportation ships
• 1823 prison reform legislation produced
• ‘punishment is not for revenge but to lessen the crime and reform prisoners’

Question 11

Josephine Butler

Answer 11

• second cousin of earl grey and father involved in abolition
• Christian faith
• repealed contagious diseases act 1883 as it had been unfair on prostitutes
• campaigned for women to not be arrested for. Prostitution
• age of consent raised from 13-16