Industrial Revolution: The Physical Deterioration Of The Textile Workers

The Industrial Revolution marked a time in history when advancements in technology proceeded to transform the industries and lifestyle of Europeans. Between the steam engine for factories, to the telegraph for communication, the people of the time benefitted from the new progress in society. Factories began producing

The Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in history that took place between 1760 and the mid 1800’s. During this time frame, a variety of different machines were invented and put in factories to make workers and everyday people’s lives easier. These machines had to be run by people such as women and even children because the men were mostly in coal mines. Some of the many negative consequences about these new jobs and new machines being invented were; child labor, physical abuse on the job, and unsafe working conditions. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because more jobs became available, it was actually a negative thing.

People nowadays are usually working in a safe, carefree environment. In the 1800’s there were families, including children that had to work in critical and unsafe conditions. Textile factories were not safe for working class families because most of the workers got sick or had terrible injuries while attending work in the textile factories. In the early 1800’s there was an interview with a doctor who worked in the cotton factory, his name was Dr.Ward. He stated that “ The state of health of the cotton factory children is much worse than that of children employed in other manufactories.” The House of Lords interview with Dr.Ward gave a lot of evidence to prove that cotton/ textile factories were not at all good for the working class families

The Industrial Revolution-the time of fear, torture, and death. During the Industrial Revolution, 1760 to 1840, children worked in unsanitary mines and were threatened by the chance of drowning, suffocating and inhaling poisonous gas everyday. Child labor and abuse is only one reason why the negatives of the Industrial revolution greatly outweigh its positives.The Industrial revolutions poor working conditions,unsanitary living, child labor and environmental damage is why its negatives greatly outweigh its positives.

In England during the industrial revolution there was a lot of poverty and pollution, especially in the main towns where the mass unemployment and people often had to go into the work houses. The conditions that they were made to work in were overcrowded. There was no sanitation or anywhere to clean, and there was a large amount of pollution. These all led to diseases among the workers. Some of the jobs that the children were made to do were chimney sweeping or selling matches. Adults had to do bone crushing for fertilisers, working in kitchens and doing the laundry for rich people.

Working conditions in the industrial revolution is terrible. As a number of factories are being build, many businesses is in need of workers. But surprisingly, many people are in line willing to work. Business owners can set their salary to as low as they want because people are willing to work as long as they get paid. People had to work 14-16 hours for 6 days a week, but majority of them are unskilled workers who only get paid about $8-$10 a week, which is approximately 10 cents an hour. On the other hand, skilled workers earn a little more but not remarkably more. Women only got paid one-third or even sometimes one-half of what men received, children got paid even less. Children are paid less than 10 cents an hour for working 14 hour days

The Industrial Revolution was a period of intense industrialization among Great Britain starting in the early 1800s. Factories were now being built among cities to help the Middle Class find stable jobs while population was increasing. Though the ideas had a slow start to a long process, the factory setting turned out to be a sustaining working environment for many. However, some may argue the Industrial Revolution had only positive outcomes on society, when in contrast, there were many negatives towards the idea of industrialization. People were killed, found to be homeless, and there were harsh working conditions in the factories.

During this revolution many urban areas were targets of water and air pollution. This was because of mass production in factories and many wastes and chemicals, mostly hydrochloric acid, was not disposed of properly and was deposited into rivers and lakes. The hydrochloric acid contaminated the water that most people drank. This caused many people to die from poisoning. Also, since there were many factories, a lot of smoke and fumes entered the atmosphere, causing major air pollution.

At the end of the Nineteenth century life was difficult for labouring classes due to the constant long hours of manual labour, the financial problems from the low pay, and the stresses of pandemics across the country. Working Children/Adults had difficult lives because their jobs were usually severely energy consuming and in extremely bad cases some developed deformities due to their ruthless occupations. Additionally, family life could be difficult due to the insufficient wages and therefore a possibly inadequate amount of food. Luxuries were also scarce among the family and dependent on their jobs, families would rarely see one and other. Housing was also huge issue in the industrial revolution due to the highly populated cities where there were small but populated and cramped houses spreading diseases very quickly.

It was caused by changes in production methods from hand to machines, the introduction and the use of steam and coal as well as various technological inventions, such as the cotton gin (invented in 1793) that increased mass production. This revolution led to so many economic and social changes, some positive and some negative, often with one change directly creating another change. This paper discusses the benefits and problems created by the industrial revolution, as well as the reasons why industrial reforms were slow in the latter stages

The Industrial Revolution was a time period which took place from the 18th century to the 19th century. It was when rural places in Europe and U.S. faced many changes and became modern and industrial. Before the Industrial Revolution, most things were manufactured in people’s home using hand tools or simple machines. With the growing population and increasing foreign trade, there was a need for mass production; this was made possible by replacing animal and water power with steam power. The steam engine played a pivotal role in industrialisation, which also improved transportation and communication. Furthermore, industrialisation made it much easier the mass produce goods and often allowed the poor some decent jobs. Agriculture was also revolutionised,

The Industrial Revolution accentuated what people already were, for better or worse. The poor became poorer, and the rich grew much, much richer. With the almost nonexistent wages, child labor, and severe lack of regulation on pretty much anything, it was near impossible to get up in the world. The first downfall of the Industrial Revolution was the abundance of Child Labor in nearly every industry. Children were taken advantage of and given next to nothing for wages, as well as beating them brutally even for the most trivial offenses. Child laborers would be beaten, whipped, and weighted. Weighting is a disciplinary practice in which a large weight is placed on a child's shoulders (or tied to their feet) and the child is forced to pace back and forth carrying the weight with them. This practice was often doled out to children for hours at a time, kids would walk around with weights up to 75 lbs for as long as 5 hrs. This practice would quite often ruin young children's growth, stunting them permanently and causing them chronic pain for the rest of their lives. Many adults who were child laborers as children still suffer from many adverse negative health effects. William Dodd worked as a child laborer and in 1841 he wrote a book titled A Narrative of a Factory Cripple about all the negative health effects he experienced

One of the most important events in the creation of the new society - is The Industrial Revolution of England.So I would like to make attention to the editor about child labor that was during that Industrial revolution time.Since in that time was really big problems with economic in country it had an results with poverty and non educated people.The factory owners started employing children from the poor familys for very low salary, in sometimes a penny a day.Lots of children didn’t had care or right nutrition , these children were subjected to long hours,harmful working conditions, and harsh punishment and it was reasons why children had weak health and died at such an early age.In that cituation only factory owners see benefits from that

During the industrial revolution people lives were harsh. They barely got any money to buy house and barely had money to eat. Regular adults would work about fourteen to sixteen hours a day and only make 10 cents each hour. Not only were there working terrible but they also had to live in tenements which were in bad conditions. It was also so crowded that a family of ten would have to live in those tenements which is not fun.

The Industrial Revolution was a time of social and economic change which emphasized the power of humanity over nature. It was also an era of change which consisted of inventions that were mass produced to make life easier between 1750 and 1914. Although the Industrial Revolution led to efficient transportation and made Great Britain the center of world commerce, only the upper class got to truly enjoy that. The Industrial Revolution had spread to all around the world so the impact was more brutal. People that were not as fortunate and did not have as much money had to work in dangerous conditions to make a living. The new achievements and innovations brought about during the Industrial Revolution caused more harm than it helped because even though it lead to human advancement with new inventions, it also led to greater social inequality because of the enormous economic gap between social classes, the clash between the two ideologies, communism and capitalism, and environmental issues.