Key Attempts For Improve Workers Housing

Most contracts never mentioned the safety and comfort of tenants (p. 10). In addition, many of the tenants were working and needed to be close to where they worked. The costs of living in these tenement houses were ridiculously high for the condition and size of the rooms.

As a consequence of the industrialisation in Britain, the mobilisation of masses started. Working class families migrated from other cities seeking for job opportunities and a better life. However, industrialised cities became affected by this and soon became overcrowded. Working class families used to dwell in tenements in rather poor sanitary conditions due to the lack of hygiene and artificial feeding in children. Children and their parents struggled to cope with freezing temperatures during the winter since they could not afford to pay

Life in Victorian London was hard. The middle class could easily go into debt and fall into poverty. The workhouses were absolutely awful they were designed to punish the poor. Therefore some people chose other options for living. “Life in the workhouse was so hard some took their chances on the street,” (Warren 17). Schools were very terrible. The food was often terrible with little to no health concerns, but the kids who went to school should be considered lucky. The jobs given to kids were much worse than bad food. Girls as young as 12 were forced into prostitution and boys chimney sweeps and often got lung cancer. In the end, Victorian London was a terrible place to live especially for the poor.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the industrial revolution was at its way, gaining many economic and technological advances but the price of hardship forced onto the workers and children during this time was paid. During this time period rural societies transformed into urban/industrial ones and a shift from working at home to factories and mass production with machinery. Many different advancements including the iron and textile industries, and also the invention of the steam engine helped pave the way of the revolution. Industrialization brought an increase of manufactured goods and also helped pave the way to our world as we know it today. As all these things were great, the industrialization significantly and truly lowered the living conditions

As time progressed society in England changed but the biggest change was caused by the industrial revolution. Society did change for the better but had many bad side effect along with it. A good thing that came from the industrial revolution was the upgrade of tools. With the Industrial revolution came many great inventions that people today rely heavily on. Inventions such as cars, planes, and tools. These changes also helped with the progression of house building, making it easier for people to design and build sturdy homes that can withstand nature. This helped us get to where we are today with all the technological advancements. But this all came at a cost. Along with the factories producing this we had people working there. These people were treated very badly with their work environment and pay. There was no minimum wage back then making it hard for people to continue living. And if u didnt die from starvation or overworking you would die from how dangerous the factories are. All day breathing in smoke and having the risk of getting stuck in a machine. And even if u did survive getting injured you would surely die of infection because they can pay for health care on how low their salary. These changes impacted in world we know today in both positive and

Friedrich Engels discusses the living conditions of the factory workers in his writing The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. In his writing he states that Manchester is built so that the working class and upper class never have to mingle. In being laid out like this, it does nothing for helping the workers improver their living conditions. Because Manchester is built on a hill, the lower class positioned on the bottom. He describes this part with narrow and winding streets where

Housing is a basic necessity for all individual. In coming up with housing facilities, there are policies and strategies set in place to ensure that the housing is convenient for human shelter. In the United Kingdom, the human housing environment is acknowledged as a setting affecting health. Epidemiological, quasi-studies have attributed the relation to the housing construction methodologies as well as the indoor quality systems in across the country (Bonnefoy, 2007). The context of this paper familiarize with the strategically imposed policies of housing, how housing policy making has changed over years, the policies followed in construction and indoor air quality and efficacy of authoritarian controls in the U.K.

The Victorian Era was filled of many new inventions but the population wasn’t filled of rich people. Those who weren’t as wealthy as others are couldn’t afford an occupation and/or household, were in workhouses. These people had to maintain jobs in order for them to live in the workhouse. People living in workhouse had various different people including orphaned and abandoned children, physically and mentally ill, disabled, elderly and single mothers. Workhouses were frequently large because it must provide a home, jobs medical care, food, clothes, education for children and training for jobs.

London was alive in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, which proved to be an extremely volatile time period in which various changes

The rapid expansion of the city of Manchester in England resulted in a number of different outcomes. This expansion forced the inhabitants of the city to endure atrocious living conditions, suffer through horrible sanitary standards, and forced inhabitants to struggle with elongated work hours that provided significantly less pay than what the work was worth. These outcomes, both good and bad, had a lasting effect on the population and demographics of the city which can be seen in the variety of reactions to the cities growth. Overall, the unprecedented speed of growth within Manchester resulted in an overall negative effect on the population of the time.

Gladstone ignored the invitation. He was just getting into his stride. “The reason we have workhouses is that there is need of institutions that care for the unemployed, the sick, and the dying without food or shelter or any means of getting the relief to keep them from dying.”

The housing shortage was one of the main reasons there was no other option. The families in these houses made so little that whatever money they had contributed to the high rent (5-10 shillings per week). There weren’t excess funds to improve the home let alone move to somewhere better. In addition, many of these homes were so decrepit that were deemed condemned. Even so, the houses were not repaired nor rebuilt since

People often lived and worked in family unit, presenting everything by their own hand. Porter (1999) points out that around 75% British lived in the village, and most people ensure their life by farming. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, this situation no longer continued. The new law required that all owner’s of gazing grounds must afford the expense for fence, which lead to many farmers go bankrupt, at the meantime, many hand weavers unemployed because the new machines capability of produce big amount outputs (Stearns, 1998). Consequently, it forced many people find jobs in new factories, and moved to cities where the factory located (Porter, 1999). It is also important to state that although they worked for long hours, they only get paid little money. As they could not afford the higher living expenses in big cities, they had to move into the slum house. It is necessary to point out that over 12,000 people lived in 1,400 houses, nearly one family shared per room (included about nine people at average) (Engles, 1968: 62). This lead to several distress like air pollution, typhoid and cholera to threaten people’s lives (Stearns, 1998). Dean (1983: 104) also describes that the living conditions were fearful, in the course of early year of Industrial Revolution, over half of children aged under five years old dead because of the infectious

This brought a rise in standards of living, which played a role in lowering infant mortality rates. By the early 1900’s

Houses were tiny and densely packed because as new towns and cities began to rapidly develop, the need for housing escalated. In a rush to build the houses, many were constructed too quickly in rows and often back to back "every scrap of space left by the old way of building has been filled up and patched over until not a foot of land is left to be further occupied". And if houses being really close together externally wasn't enough, they were also very crowded internally as a result of the fast increase in population. Five to Nine people lived in a "small one-storied, one-roomed hut" which was as big as an apartment and families had to share the tight space with other families or even complete strangers.