U7 L5 Social Changes: Negative Drawbacks (PART 2)

Question 1

How many hours a day was generally considered the normal work load for men, women, and children?

Answer 1

14-16

Question 2

Who received the lowest wage?

Answer 2

women and children

Question 3

At what age were children put to work in mills and mines?

Answer 3

less than 6

Question 4

What would happen to the children if they were found sleeping at their tasks?

Answer 4

beaten

Question 5

What were the conditions, men, women, and children faced in factories?

Answer 5

• poor ventilation, safety, sanitation

- no accident insurance or injury compensation

Question 6

Why was work in factories often uncertain and unsteady?

Answer 6

• too much goods manufactured, accumulates

- employers cut wages and reduce production

Question 7

Was unemployment feared by all workers?

Answer 7

yes

Question 8

Did workers receive retirement pensions?

Answer 8

no

Question 9

What was the reason why the government did not take action against the poor working conditions in factories?

Answer 9

laissez-faire policy

Question 10

What did Adam Smith explain that were the two natural economic laws business activities were based on?

Answer 10

1- law of supply and demand
2- law of competition
-supply low, demand great, high price

Question 11

What did Adam Smith’s theory forbid?

Answer 11

govt interference

Question 12

Who were the ones who instituted reforms on working conditions?

Answer 12

moral legislators

Question 13

Who were 2 writers who wrote of the deplorable working condition?

Answer 13

• Charles Dickens

- Benjamin Disraeli

Question 14

Where did labor reform laws begin?

Answer 14

England

Question 15

What was the reform passed in 1819?

Answer 15

• children under 9 prohibited from working in cotton mills

- 9-18 not more than 12 hours a day

Question 16

What was the reform passed in 1833?

Answer 16

• expanded 1819 reform to all textile factories

- all under 18 prohibited for night work

Question 17

What was the reform passed in 1847?

Answer 17

• Ten Hour Act

- women and children only work 10 hours a day

Question 18

What were laissez-faire theories replaced by?

Answer 18

govt sensitive to working class needs

Question 19

What were unions organized to do?

Answer 19

• stand against employer abuses
• demand higher wages
• improve working conditions

Question 20

What did factory reform laws not change and change?

Answer 20

x-wages

✔-working conditions

Question 21

What was the process factory workers used to make their voices heard to industrialists?

Answer 21

collective bargaining

Question 22

What would happen if the industrialists did not hear out the workers in collective bargaining?

Answer 22

strike until a mutual settlement could be reached

Question 23

Were workers paid during strikes?

Answer 23

no

Question 24

What happened to the factory/factory owners when workers went on strike?

Answer 24

lose money