WORKING CONDITIONS OF FACTORIES

WORKING CONDITIONS OF THE FACTORY

• Even though the working conditions were poor, people needed work.
• Hours were on average 10-14 hours per day, with no brakes and little food.
• Factories could get up to 130 degrees (colder region) when in the process of purifying iron.
• Factory worker were beaten but also experienced exhaustion and dehydration.
• Workers were poorly treated and often brutally beaten by over lookers.

MORE WORKING CONDITIONS

• Workers were very often injured and fired so someone could do their job
• They would receive no financial compensation, no help
• Workers couldn't chat during work hours as they would have in the country
• Forced to change their entire lifestyles and work for less money and worse conditions.
• Couldn't return to village during harvest time to help their family's to get food.

MORE WORKING CONDITIONS

• In 1799 and 1800 the British parliament passed the combination acts
• This made it illegal to for workers to unionize or combine as a group.
• Only wealthy could vote, workers couldn't use political system
• They couldn't fight for their rights.
• Small kids also worked resulting in a generation of bad health, no education, and bad habits

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