21.I Industrial conditions transformed

Question 1

Women and Children

What did the 1833 Factory Act do? (3)

Answer 1

No children under 9 employed
Under 18s max 12h day
Mill inspectors (only 4 inspectors for 100 mills)

Question 2

Women and Children

What happened in the 1844 Factory Act?

Answer 2

Women allowed to work 12h a day

Question 3

Women and Children

What happened in the 1847 Factor Act? +/-

Answer 3

+ Women and children only allowed to work 10hrs a day
- 10.5 h 1850

Question 4

Men

What did the 1847 factory act do for men?
+/-

Answer 4

Many men only worked 10hs too due to economic slowdown +
Factories used split shifts to get around this -

Question 5

Men

What happened in the 1853 factory act?

Answer 5

Women and children working hours limited between 6pm and 6am - men also received this as they could not operate the factories on their own

Question 6

Men

What did the 1844 Factory Act do?

Answer 6

Meant that all machinery had to be caged off - improved health and safety for all workers

Question 7

Miners

What did the 1842 mines act do? (2)

Answer 7

Banned women and children under 10 from working in mines

(Children under 19 had made up 1/3 of workers)

Question 8

Mines

When did the Royal School of Mines open? What did they do?

Answer 8

1851
Provided qualified inspectors

Question 9

Mines

What event in 1856 demonstrates that legislation was being enforced?

Answer 9

A mine manager was prosecuted for an explosion

Question 10

Mines

What did the 1860 mines act do?

Answer 10

Inspections were required

Question 11

Mines

How did mines become more dangerous?

Answer 11

90m mines in the 18th century compared to 300’m mines by 1850

Question 12

Mines

Were mining conditions transformed?

Answer 12

Trimdon Grange mining accident 1882
- 72 dead
- LT problems with mines still sustained