In middle 1700's, after the Scientific Revolution, an event changed the quality of life in Europe by the means of discovering and inventing machines in order to make the work faster and produce more materials. This gave birth to the Industrial Revolution. Despite these benefits, Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist and politician, tested the people in this quote: "The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned." As a citizen of the modernizing society, I ask myself this question: Can somebody complete Gramsci's challenge? In my view, completing this challenge is impossible. What makes this challenge so difficult? The fundamental answer to the question lies in the contradictions, especially in living without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. In order for the families to escape from the hard and misery life brought by poverty, they send their children to work in the factories. This suggested that children deprived not only their family life, but also their schooling. In effect, factory routines dulled their minds and made them vulnerable to illnesses due to the …show more content…
However, the film did not explicitly state any punishment for poor performance or for being late, instead, one is given suspension for a misdemeanor (for being suspected as someone who "drank" in the case of Pautasso). Moreover, because of the work system, workers in the textile factory had gone into protests (in form of a "walkout," which failed, and in form of a "strike" led by Professor Sinigaglia). Unluckily, despite their aggression towards their aim, Omero became a victim of Sinigaglia's ideas of revolution and the modernity itself. In effect, his dream for his younger brother Pierino to finish school and get a diploma shattered and Pierino worked in the factory at a young
Children who worked in factories were commonly exposed to large and dangerous machines (large/thick needles, constantly spinning threads, etc.) 6. Young children were considered “clean slates” for factory work
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.
Mortality rates were decreasing rapidly. This was not only an effect of the poor living conditions, but also of the high pollution that was being created by the factories. Conditions for adult and children in the factory during the Industrial Revolution were unrelenting in its enforcement of tough rules, long hours and its unsanitary and, sometimes, dangerous environment. According to author, the mill work that Sam and the other children did was dangerous nor particularly difficult. Children of the Industrial Revolution perhaps suffered more than the adults also “some of the children had their hands terribly lacerated by the carding machine”. Owners realized that children were easier to train and control and they were forced to work as young as eight years old. They worked for many hours in factories and were denied their education. At such a young age, education and the support of family would have been instrumental in the development of such an impressionable mind. The innocence of what it means to be a child was exploited by the business owners who wished only to gain more
"Last Thursday one girl fell down and broke her neck which caused instant death. She was going in or coming out of the mill and slipped down it being very icy" (Paul). This quote emphasizes the daily struggles that young children faced during the industrial revolution as far as looking out for their own well being. Children initially were involved in the work industry as a result of machines taking over thousands of men's jobs. Pictures of the factories sent very negative emotions to all who saw them, despite the positive sounding letters that were sent home. The work industry, for children, was extremely dangerous, and as stated in the source, children often died will on the job because of poor working conditions. Although the letters that children sent home to their families may have sounded positive overall, the images of children at work are anything but pleasurable to witness. As a result of analyzing these sources, that working as a child could be lethal, however, the letter contradicts the pictures by claiming the work environment is pleasurable.
If a child were to work at the mill they would start out as young as ten years old. Most of the children that did work at the mill would got to school for about 6 hours then they would go to work for 7 or so hours. Also many of the women that did work at the mill their husbands had died so they had to provide for their children and they typically had more than two children. It was very rough at the mill, the air was filled with fumes and lint and it would get stuck in the worker's lungs and they would get really sick. It was terrible for the children to because they didn’t have a well developed immune system so they would get sick a lot quicker and they would get
From the perspective of factory workers, the advent of the Industrial Revolution negatively affected the average worker due to the use of child labor and unsafe working
They were recruited to have better style of living, but it quickly took a turn for the worse. They overworked, lived in a very tight, crowded environment. Their wages were incredibly low. Due to living in such tight quarters, they would often attract diseases such as typhus, cholera, and other crowd diseases. Moreover, the employers would treat them very poorly. Often inattentive workers were subjected to likely lose fingers, hands, or whole arm. Due to factory’s owners lack of supervision, the worked place became even more crowded and overall
The Industrial Revolution started in the eighteenth century in Britain. There were innovative advances in the society that led to the faster production of goods. Prior to this even started, agriculturists needed to leave their property and urbanize to the urban areas. The main accessible occupation that required job was the frightening industrial facilities. These factories changed the lives of these agriculturalists by making them work numerous hours.
The unsanitary conditions had brought many negative effect that all affected the workers. According to the text it states “The Hands of these men would be criss-crossed with cuts, until you could no longer pretend to count them or trace them. This explains the conditions and the effect of these poor conditions. This was not fair and unsafe. One effect of the poor working conditions in many factories is now many factories were losing powerful workers because of them being overworked and injured constantly in the factories.
Dangerous factory conditions created a harmful environment for people, especially children, to work in. They had no safety and had a high risk for permanent deformities and injuries. Air and water pollution posed a high risk for health problems from breathing in the air and drinking the contaminated water. An enormous lack of labor restrictions allowed children that were of very young ages to work in dangerous environments, allotted long hours of consistent labor, and held a high probability of damaging family relationships. Although there were some positive effects and reforms through technology and health, I believe the industrialization period was mostly negative because it held consequences for people’s health and relationships, which I consider to be more important than any piece of technology the world has
At one point, Industrialization had a very negative impact on society. It had affected many people’s lives in a very gloomy way. While some people might argue that Industrialization had primarily positive effects for society because there was better business and financial opportunities it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization’s negative effects were unsafe working conditions, bad employers, and many people were separated from their families.
The practice of Child Labor in America in the early 1900s had a devastating impact on generations of children. This mainly impacted children of poor and disadvantaged families; these families tended to suffer from generations of debt or were new immigrants to America. These children worked long hours which they did not get paid nearly enough for. They worked hard, dangerous jobs daily. In the 1900s, children chose to support their families in times of need rather than furthering their education, for which they did not get paid nearly enough. These jobs affected their health poorly and had a negative impact on their childhood and development. Children of poor families in cities suffered the most during the Industrial Revolution, because they had to work long hours, did hard jobs, and often sacrificed their health and education to support their struggling families.
This quote I found from an online article explains what kids went through during this harsh time. It almost sounds like they were slaves by how low they were getting paid. Most of us have never even heard of kids working late at nights doing jobs that today no one can possibly do because they have been replaced with machines from the dangers they carry. Children worked some of the most dangerous factory jobs that existed and they didn’t by choice. They had no choice but to work because either their family was poor or they were orphans.
The roles available required long hours and supplied little pay. The poverty level became very excessive and each capable member of the family was required to work in order keep the family above deprivation. Families migrated from the rural farm areas to the newly industrialized, crowded towns on the lookout for work opportunities. in the course of this revolution, children became one of the groups that had been extensively affected due to the fact they were referred to as to workers within the factories. A family could no longer be capable of earning enough itself if the children weren 't employed. This caused the excessive rise of child labour in factories. Children worked long hours on their family’s farms when they were living in the rural areas but in the cities the children worked extensively hard for very long hours for larger companies
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