Lowland Push Factors

Question 1

Dangerous working conditions

Answer 1

•Damaging to health
•factories had poor lighting and ventilation causing problems for workers
•poor safety made working dangerous
• injuries + deaths were a regular
•people would get trapped in machinery

Question 2

Low wages

Answer 2

•many got lw and limited opp to change this for fear of complaints leading to unemployment

•in the 1830s, Scot earned up to 25% less than people in England for the same job, by the 1860s the gap was 20%

Question 3

Unemployment

Answer 3

•some Scot that did have jobs did not have work across the entire year

•Scot in seasonal jobs did not earn money when times were quiet leading to financial strife, for example, builders tended to have no work from nov to feb

Question 4

Lack of government support

Answer 4

•in the 1800s, poverty was made worse as the government did not provide benefits such as sick pay or unemployment pay

•some Scot were forced to go to the poor house as a last resort if they were very poor

Question 5

Poor housing

Answer 5

•ph was reality face by many
• problems included major overcrowding, poor quality buildings and terrible sanitation which cause spreading diseases
•the average number of people living in a single end was 5 but there were cases of up to 15

Question 6

Poor hygiene

Answer 6

•the majority of homes did not have indoor toilets
•this meant that people had to share outdoor toilets with numerous other families
•often these were not very clean which led to poor hygiene and disease

Question 7

Factors

Answer 7

•dangerous working conditions

•low wages

•unemployment

•lack of government support

•poor housing

•poor hygiene