working conditions

Question 1

hours

Answer 1

• 6 days a week 14 hour days
• 2 hours taken off wages if 10 minute late
• 1/5 of wages if talking
• no safety measures

Question 2

loss of jobs

Answer 2

• skilled workers being replaced with machines
• forced to move into urban areas for work
• less well paid
• leadings to movements like the luddites and the swing riots
• threshing machine can do more work than 15 men

Question 3

1833 factory act

Answer 3

• 4 inspectors
• 2 hours of schooling
• no children under 9
• encouraged further reform
• lacked cooperation from employers

Question 4

demand in coal

Answer 4

• advances in infrastructure increase pressure
• railways, canals factories
• between 1770 and 1850 production of coal from 6 million to 55 million tonnes
• 1842 mines act bans children from the mines
• however not as good as families needed the money - further adds to squalid living conditions