Textile Factory Life Dr Ward Analysis

Textile factories are not safe for working class families. Working condition in the factories were not safe or healthy for the children working. A doctor named Dr.Ward says “. . . We could not remain ten minutes in the factories without gasping for breath.” He also says “ There were forty-seven injured . . .” (House of Lords Committee interview Dr.Ward). Joseph Herbergam was once working in the factories as a kid. Herbergam says “ My leg muscles do not function properly . . .”. He also talks about how he may die in a year because all the fumes he inhaled as a child. (Testimony of Joseph Herbergam to the Sadler committee). Dr.ward is a doctor so he is aware of what is harmful to breath in. It was unhealthy for many reasons but one reason

During the 1800s, people and children would work long hours in factories. I read 4 documents that talked about conditions in English Textile Factories. Based off of the 4 documents, working conditions were horrible.

The textile factories in England were bad for the health of the workers because the air quality was terrible, injuries were recurring, and the workers suffered mistreatment. According to Document A, “the health of the cotton-factory children is much worse than that of children employed in other manufactories.” In other words, compared to other occupations in other manufactories, the cotton-factories experienced awful well being for their workers. In addition, “accidents were very often admitted to the infirmary, through the children’s hands and arms having been caught in the machinery.” This quote conveys that injuries in the cotton factories were happening very frequently.

In the Report on the Conditions of the Laboring Population of Great Britain, Edwin Chadwick discussed diseases, filth, overcrowding, bad ventilation, and short lives of the laboring classes (Doc 5). Furthermore, individuals spoke against safety and health conditions in factories across Europe. Illnesses were widespread and children suffered from disease as well. Tocqueville (Doc 3) and Tristan (Doc 6), a guest and a ladies' rights advocate from France respectively, remarked on the “physical and moral degradation of this class of the population”, claiming that the factories were creating harmful pollution to the environment and poisoning the people with unsafe contamination; however, the conflict between the French and the English might just have made them enhance and amplify this issue, exaggerating the actual health problems the factories produced. Similarly, Chadwick was plagued and daunted by the foul, filthy work regions of the laboring classes (Doc 5).

They spend 12 to 14 hours each day shut up in a low-ceiling rooms they are all sickly and emaciated, their bodies thin and frail, their limbs feeble, their complexions pale, their eyes dead. This is the horror that Flora Tristan witnessed; people were working more than half a day with no food, clothes, and the working conditions were full of toxic air and other harmful substances. Her standpoint in this statement can be said as being non-biased as she is a socialist and thus, she cares (Doc. 7). People reacted violently to these conditions, which forced the government to pass the Ten Hours Act, which limited the number of hours a worker could work to ten hours a day. This resulted in better condition of the workers. William Abram, a journalist and historian, noticed, the condition of the factory laborers has been vastly improved (Doc. 10). This shows the result of the reaction of the people. The point of view of William Abram is factual and accurate as he is a journalist and a historian, and his work is to provide people with the truth. As witnessed by Frances Kemble, actress, poet, and dramatist, people were [s]houting No Corn Laws when she arrived in Manchester during the inaugural of railway. This shows the reaction to the wages that workers got before some reforms in Manchester (Doc. 4). Document 10 also states that the [w]ages thanks

One of the many problems raised by the industrailization of manchester were diesises broght by the poor work facilities. In Edwin Charwick’s record of deseases in machester, he states “The annual loss of life from filth and

Although, others may prove that factory life was, in fact, safe, and it gave others benefits due to working in these factories. Factory life is indeed a very high risk for these kids to be working in, due to the conditions and injuries they encountered while working in the factory. During the 1800’s many doctors treated some employees that did work in factories. Dr.ward stated that “They are really nurseries of disease and vice.” ( House of Lords Interview Dr. Ward ).

These circumstances tend to produce an adult population short-lived, reckless, and intemperate, and with habits of sensual gratification.” This was a negative reaction because the document explains of all problems that arose and reported by the sanitary conditions of the laboring population of Great Britain. These troubles caused work environments to be unsafe because the factories were awfully ventilated. The men worked long, hard hours in an awful environment. This caused men to stop working and their families started to starve because of the lack of money to buy food supply and necessities.

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

The Industrial Revolution had many long-lasting effects on the English economy and society in the 1800s; the effects being both positive and negative. England’s industrialization resulted in urbanization, improved production, and better transportation, but also in poor living and working conditions for the working class, including many children. Industrialization in England made production of goods much more convenient, creating a greater demand for unskilled labor and a rapidly growing population. The population increase meant that more food was needed in order to feed everyone. In Document 5, Michael Mandelbaum explains that some rural labor was made “redundant,” causing many people to move to urban cities where they could find work in the new factories.

I think that this document portrays that the poor children working in Mr. Pooley’s factory do not have any health issues and have a fairly nice workplace. Therefore, I think that at this time the population was relatively low, so wages were high and people had to work less often in order to gain enough money to feed their families. However, because I believe self-interest of individuals provides motivation for human action, I think it’s suspicious that the owner of the factory had the doctor conduct research that had such positive results. I think people are motivated by a fear of becoming poor, so Mr. Pooley could have forced the doctor to

The spread of industrialization rapidly altered and changed the city of Manchester during the nineteenth century. Of course there were positive effects that stemmed from this, but negative effects due to the growth of industrialization outnumbered the positive outcomes and are often overshadowed. The environmental hazards and the working conditions of the factory were enough to harm laborers and the gentry (documents 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 and 11), dulling the positive

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

In document 10, William Radcliffe is describing the textile industry and the new system of manufacturing. He paints laborers as having a good and easy life. This is contradictory of historical

The factory conditions showed in The Last Train Home are pitiful. Sewing machines are squished together; workers can barely move and have no workspace. The floors are barely visible because they’re filed with fabric scraps. The factory workers that have their children living with them in the factories have to take them to their workspace. There the kids run around the factory, take naps in piles of fabric scraps and trip over things. The workers live in the factories; they’re provided with small rooms divided with fabric. The rooms are filthy and overcrowded. The walls and floors of the small dormitories are dirty and grimy. They use buckets as bathrooms, they also have to clean themselves in a bucket. Also, since they live in the factory they inhale fabric dust, which can lead to serious health problems such as Byssinosis a lung disease that occurs to people who work long hours with fabrics and have poor ventilation, which is what happens at these