Industrialisation Conditions

Question 1

1833 Factory Act

Answer 1

4 full time inspectors
owners obliged to whitewash premises annually
No night work under 18
2 hours schooling ages 9-11

Question 2

Limitations 1833 Act

Answer 2

over 4000 mills so inspectors not able to check

Schools were not invested in

Question 3

New Lanark

Answer 3

Incentives not punishments
‘silent monitor’ , white for excellent behaviour
After 1800 workday shortened to 12 hours

Question 4

Proportion workers in manufacturing

Answer 4

2/3 by 1871

Question 5

1867

Answer 5

Factory Act extended to all factories with more than 50 people employed

Question 6

1813

Answer 6

Repeal of Statute of Artificers, some regulation since 1563

Question 7

1844

Answer 7

Educative clause of 1833 removed

Question 8

1842

Answer 8

Mines Act

Banned underground employment for women and children under 10

Question 9

1847

Answer 9

Ten Hour day

Only women and children

Question 10

Child mortality

Answer 10

3/20 children died in 1st year

1/2 before 5th in 1830s Sheffield and Manchester

Question 11

1866

Answer 11

Sanitary Act
Compulsory inspections for local corporations
disregard for quarantine in case of contagious disease punishable

Question 12

Growth urban areas

Answer 12

27% every deacde 1801-51

Question 13

back to back houses

Answer 13

1841- 2/3 workers in Birmingham lived in one

Question 14

diseases

Answer 14

1831 Sunderland: cholera, 32 000

typhus, 4 000 per year