Industrialisation and Protest: Living and Working in Industrial Britain Flashcards
1
Q
How many in Manchester lived in terrible conditions iin 1848?
A
350,000
2
Q
How much of Birmingham’s population lived in back to back housing?
A
2/3
3
Q
In 1831, Sunderland had an outbreak of cholera that killed how many?
A
32,000
4
Q
What percentage of the workforce were children by 1821?
A
49%
5
Q
Before which acts were there few protections for workers?
A
1833 Factory Act and 1844 Specific Machinery Reforms
6
Q
By 1843 what percentage of the mining workforce were children?
A
33%
7
Q
What did the Mining Act of 1842 do?
A
Make it that women and children under 10 couldn’t work in mines
