👷🏻Life Of A Factory/Mine Worker👷🏻 Flashcards
1
Q
How long was a working day?
A
15hrs
2
Q
What were the risks of working in a factory?
A
Injuries such as loss of limbs, lung disease from breathing in tiny materials
3
Q
What were the risks of working in a mine?
A
Black lung (disease from breathing in coal dust), flooding from underground Rivers, explosions from built up gas (canary)
4
Q
What were living conditions like?
A
One family in a room. No showers, bathe once a month. Food stale/ rotten. Most died before 40.
5
Q
Where did they live?
A
Tenement buildings
6
Q
What diseases were easily spread?
A
TB, Small pox, cholera. Rare to have clean water, many families shared one toilet
7
Q
What was pollution like?
A
Factories produced a thick smog that covered cities
