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Question 1

How did advances in engineering and machines affect factory work and factory workers?

Answer 1

1. Advances in machinery meant fewer workers were needed in the factories and the workers were unskilled

Question 2

What is mass production?

Answer 2

Mass production-making lots of goods quickly and cheaply

Question 3

Manchester’s population grew significantly between 1777 and 1851. Outline the causes of this.

Answer 3

Manchester grew so fast because more and more factories provided work there

Question 4

Identify why women and children were often given jobs over male workers during this time?

Answer 4

Women and children were cheaper to employ

Question 5

What were some of the improvements in workers lives by 1860?

Answer 5

5. Standard of living improved, wages increased

Question 6

What were some of the problems created by the new production methods and what were working conditions like before the parliamentary reform?

Answer 6

Problems included-loss of jobs for skilled workers.

- poor quality of goods as priority was quantity
- poor safety conditions for workers
- harsh working environments: no heating or colling, noisy, cramped, long hours, unsanitary conditions and poor lighting

Question 7

Explain how the assembly line worked in Henry Ford’s car factory?

Answer 7

8. Fords factory had workers completing one part of the vehicle all day-as the car moved down the line

Question 8

What was special about the 1908 Ford Model T automobile?

Answer 8

9. It was cheap so cars were no longer just for the wealthy

Question 9

In what way was ford’s bussiness model different from many other industrialists?

Answer 9

10. Ford had his workers well and sold his car cheap

Question 10

How do current automated assembly lines differ from ford’s time?

Answer 10

11. Today robots do a lot of the work at a car factory and workers monitor the robot.