WORKING CONDITIONS AND WORKERS

CONDITIONS

• 80% of society was working class
• Only natural light was let in the factories
• Dangerous machines
• Crowded
• Dusty and dirty

HOURS & WAGES

• 14-16 hours a day
• 6 days a week / no holidays
• $1.25 a day for unskilled workers
• Women and children made 1/3 of that price

FACTORY ACT OF 1833

• No child under the age of 9 could work
• Children ages 9-12 can not work more than 8 hours
• Ages 13-17 can not work more than 12 hours
• Direct result of Sadler committee

MINES ACT OF 1842

• Resulted from the Ashley mines commission
• No women or children where let in the mines to work

10 HOURS ACT OF 1847

• Further restricts women or children ( under the age of 17 )
• Could work no more than 10 hors a day

1833
Abolition of slavery in the British empire

OVERCROWDING

• 1-9 people to 1-room apartment
• Diseases spread rapidly
• Lack of medical care

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