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Do you think that English textile factories were bad for the health of working class families. Use evidence from at least two of the documents to support your claim.

Dr. Ward states that the factories were unfavorable to both the health and the morals of the workers (House of lords interview with Michael Ward). Dr. Ward also said , “The health of children in other manufactures is much worse” (House of lords interview with Michael Ward). And in another case a young man by the name of Joseph Hebergam was told by a doctor that he’d be dead within the year due to ¨Overwork” and ¨Insufficient diet¨ (Testimony of Joseph Hebergam to the soldier committee). Dr. Wards statement claimed that the factories affected both the children's health and morals which should bring us to ask, how bad must these factories be. Obviously children

Overall, the Industrialization had a greater positive effect on society. There was easier farming and a higher standard of living. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily negative consequences for society because of people got separated from their family, there was crowded living space up to six people a bed and there was child labor. It was actually a positive thing for society. Industrialization’s positive effects were better financial opportunities, more jobs, and faster transportation.

In Document 3, Flora Tristan describes the terrible conditions in the factories and how the workers lack many things such as clothing, beds, food and more. According to Tristan, the worker spend over twelve hours a day in a “low-ceilinged rooms” where every breath they take, they absorb many foul things from the workspace. Laborer had to go to these working condition everyday to complete a certain number of products and were not allowed to leave until they finished. Not only do the laborers have to work in these terrible conditions they usually also had to eat there because they could not leave to eat. These people did not get enough to eat and also were not eating in good conditions, which was dangerous to their health.

Textile factories were not safe for working class families for the reason that the people were injured and unhealthy. A few people entered into the textile factories unhealthy which could´ve made their health issues worse. The interviewee , Dr. Holme says that the people employed were in great health. He also said that the children he had seen were all in health and that the hours they worked were not injurious to their health. John Birley says that they had good food and good beds. He also says that they were treated kindly. Dr . Holme says that Mr. Pooley employed 401 people and 363 people were in good health. Dr. Holme also said that the factories were as healthy as any other part of the working classes of the community. His conclusion was

Taking after a flare-up of fever among the kids working in their cotton processes, the general population of Manchester, England, started requesting better working conditions in the manufacturing plants. Open weight in the long run

Factories were unsafe for the health of working families due to the House Of Lords curiosity on if factories were healthy or unhealthy,Interviewing John Birley, Dr.Ward,and Edward Baines.John Birley says,”but before we were examined we were washed up and cleaned up and ordered to tell them we liked working at the mill and were well treated”.John birley also says,”needham beat us with a knob-stick till we could scarcely crawl”.John Birley worked in the factory as a kid.Dr.Ward quotes,”the number of children who had received injuries from the machinery amounted to very nearly one half.There were forty-seven injured in this way”.Dr.Ward was a surgeon in the infirmary and witnessed children's injuries.Edward Baines quotes,”Above all it is alleged

Industrialization, good thing? Jeffrey Liu Hist 152 31200  “Industrialization refers to a process that transformed agrarian and handicraft-centered economies into economies distinguished by industry and machine manufacture. ”(Traditions & Encounters) Due to industrialization, cities had supported urbanization and migration, and job opportunities were increasing.

In Katherine Paterson's novel Lyddie, the main character is a factory worker at the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts who makes cloth using powder looms. Mill workers typically worked a 13 hour day with two 25 minute breaks for breakfast and lunch. Working conditions within the mills were harsh. The air quality was poor, windows were never opened, there were flying shuttles that you can get hurt from, and to do your job you have to suck a tube that everyone else sucks aswell so, it had a lot of germs. Also it isn’t worth your precious time to be near a creeper.(Mr.Marsden the overseer) It is very unsafe during the speed up and very tiring. Some workers like union member Diana Goss are trying to bring about change by circulating a petition that

John says he will die within a year as a result of the unsafe working conditions and an insufficient diet. Joseph had lost his brother because of the unsafe conditions and improper treatment of an infection. Joseph goes on and on about all the people who were hurt and injured of the years he had been there because of how unsafe it was. Both these documents have a clearly negative point of view and are not bias on the fact that they are interviews of workers who know the true extent of the factories. In 1844 Friedrich Engels wrote The Conditions of the Working Class in England.

LBS Textiles is a firm that designs fabrics for wholesale markets in North-East America. The company has experienced a modest growth over the last three years.

"Two and a half-million pairs of lungs, two hundred and fifty thousand fires, crowded upon an area three to four miles square, consume an enormous amount of oxygen, which is replaced with difficulty," (Engels 1). Engels could be describing the conditions in which we work in the factory, but he is not even going so far. The poor bloke was probably frightened off from our cities to the point where visiting an actual textile mill or coalmine would have killed him. The astute German author is describing not where we work, but where we live. Imagine! My name is Whitley Briggs, and I am an apprentice tailor. My mother works in the same factory as I do, and my father died five years ago from typhus or consumption I forgot which, now.

Conditions were harsh, with rules being even harsher. Our oldest daughter, now 7, who worked the same long hours that we did was often in danger. It is not irregular for workers, to become injured or sick from work. “In many rooms of the cotton and flax-spinning mills, the air is filled with fibrous dust, which produces chest affections…the most common effects of this breathing of dust are blood-spitting, hard noisy breathing, pains in the chest, coughs and sleeplessness.” (Source Pkt.1 #35) This problem was especially clear with children, often “children regularly climbed under and on top of the of the equipment to free jammed machines, collect cotton, and tie broken threads, many young workers suffered terrible injuries to their hands and even lost fingers” (Sherman, p 532). There are no safety precautions put into place by the the supervisors. The work, when available, was long, tedious, and remarkably dangerous.

Although officials made efforts to better the working conditions of the factory, many workers suffered from unemployment, dangerous working conditions, along with extremely low wages, and sexual abuse. The extremely poor working conditions of the Industrial Revolution compromised the health and well-being of workers (In source 10 and 11) An example of the workers being treated unfairly is the spoiled food they were “Yes, at times with the dust; sometimes we could not eat it, when it had got a lot of dust on.” (source 10) “We did earn somewhat more here- two talers a week- but the conditions in the factory were horrible: it was said that anyone who worked there for a few years had consumption. There

The Lalbhais can trace their descent from Seth Shantidas (c.1590-1659), who was a dominant figure in the business and civic life of the city. The current surname, Lalbhai, is derived from Lalbhai Dalpatbhai the great great great grandson of Khushalchand. Lalbhai was born around the time when the first textile factory in the city went into production. The first manufacturing company of the Lalbhai family, Saraspur Manufacturing Company was established in 1897. It started with producing cotton yarn. During the intensifying Swadeshi movement the second company Raipur Mills was established in 1905. At about this time, Mahatma Gandhi championed the Swadeshi Movement and at his call, people