Industrial Revuloution Britain Flashcards
Causes of Industrial Revuolotion
Population size
Britain’s overseas trade
Britain’s agriculture
Transportation
Entrepreneurs and investors
Britain’s raw materials
Political status
Domestic Life
Woman work from home
Woman mostly worked on textiles
Woman could take up more work at home like cleaning, cooking, etc.
Woman chose their working hours
They sell items they make through merchants
Factory Life
Woman work 5 to 6 times a week in factory
Not safe or good working conditions
Producing for a company
Recieve monthly salary
Working hours controlled by bosses
What do the factory & domestic life have in common?
Both have a source of income
Define Unskilled Labor
It is when there is someone who does not have the education, knowledge, or skill to work in a certain job.
Define Pauper
This word means a person who is very poor and usually lives on the street and has nowhere to go.
Define Laissez Faire
Period of time where a economic philosophy group of people went aganist the goverment or a certain part of it.
Define Child Labor
Child labor is when children used to work in factories to make money & pay taxes.
Benefits of Child Labor for economy
Children earn money and paid taxes
Children were small enough to fix certain parts of machine
They were cheap labor and low cost and invested the profits into new factories
Disadvantages of Child Labor for children
Children were abused and couldn’t live good lives
They were killed and mutilated
They missed out on education, poor forever, and had enough adults and did not need children
