improvments men

Question 1

3rd factory act

Answer 1

• 1847
• didn’t directly affect them but hours reduced due to economic slowdown
• women and children couldn’t work before or after 6am-6pm

Question 2

4th factory act

Answer 2

• 1853
• women restricted to 10 1/2 hour days so men also reduced as factories struggled to run without them

Question 3

extending to industries

Answer 3

• by 1864 acts extended to more industries
  e.g. fustian cutting, bleaching and dye works and match making
• 1867 to all establishments with 50 or more workers

Question 4

robert owen

Answer 4

• new lanark
• sells to quaker partners in 1824 and it’s ran the way he would for 50 years
• charles and henry walker
• improved living conditions and working conditions
• also titus salt and saltaire
• but inky a few examples that didn’t catch on