Industrial Revolution Flashcards
What was the industrial revolution?
Described major changes in manufacture of goods and where people worked and lived. In Britain this happened between 1750 and 1900. By 1900 hoods were produced in workshops.
What does the phrase factory system mean?
People started producing their products in factories left village
Common way to produce and sell goods
Who worked in factories?
Men women children
What was it like to work in a factory during this time?
Long hours
Lots of accidents
Machines had no guards crushed limbs
How long were working days ?
12 to 15 hours
Pauper apprentices
Orphans sent to work in factories in exchange for food, clothes and a bed for the factory owners,
Overseers
Factory Managers who were he gem the job of making people in factories work as hard as possible
Beat children and adults
What is a Reformer?
Someone who tries to change and improve something for example:working conditions.
Who is Robert Owen?
Example of a reformer (and s factory owner) that stopped employing children under ten so they could be educated (without expense).
How did reformers bring about changing to working?
Robert Owen made pamflets,wrote letters to the House of Commons elucidating why working conditions weren’t acceptable and made speeches around Britain on his experiments.
Parliament decided to act on what Robert was saying.by 1900s factories and mines had become safer and more bearable.
Interviews were made e.g. a few questions from a Sadler report and investigation into factory conditions- 1832
