Life During The Industrial Revolution Flashcards
Leisure
- Sunday off
- drank beer, cider, ale
- fights
- boxing, dog fighting, cock fighting, gambling
1st Factory Act
1933, “2 hours edumacation a week”
Where lived this person?
Lancashire (mills)
Liverpool (exported cotton)
How tall were cotton mills
5stories high
What were the machines like
- defeating
- threw off water-> bad in winter
- steam-powered
Working hours for cotton worker
5.30 am until 8pm
Description of cotton mill wages
- low, many wanted work
- women and children paid less-> employed more
Lead sure time at work
- 40 minutes dinner
- 3x toilet permission
- Sunday off
Why were the cotton mills unsuitable for people?
- tired-> fell against machine and lost limbs
- dusty+damp air -> not allowed open windows
- supervisors beat children
Child working in cotton mill
- beaten by supervisor
- pieces-> mended broken threads, had to lean over machine, often seriously injured
Punishments at a cotton mill
- fined
- children beaten
Working hours for coal workers
14 hours a day
-break Sunday
Who were trappers
- 5->7 Y/OS
- open+closed coal shaft doors to circulate gas in the mine
Who were hurriers?
- (12-16 y/os and women)
- dragged half a tonne of coal along shafts
Who were Colliers
- 17+ male
- cut coal from the ore with pick axe and shovels
