PRESENTATION OUTLINE
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WORK CONDITIONS
The Industrial Revolution was a period of great change. New industries developed rapidly as a result of a number of new inventions and the way in which things were produced, and the way in which people lived and worked, changed rapidly as a result of these developments.
There were hard working conditions and low pay during this era.
They worked in dirty and unsafe places.
Death from diseases and machine accidents were not uncommon in these times.
When the workers went home the conditions weren't much better. Their houses were dirty and polluted. They spent around 15 hours working and only had four or five days off a year. They didn't make a lot of money. If they broke machines the boss could beat them. Their wages were very low, barely enough to buy food.
Children were expected to help with the family budget. Any child above the age of four was put to work. They worked eight to twelve hours and in dangerous conditions for small wages. Many times they were used to retrieve parts or other things under dangerous machines because the adults were to big to get them. Children were hurt or even killed from machinery accidents.
There were not many children in school because rich children were the only ones who had the chance to attend. Girls didn't have the same education as boys. They learned to become mothers and wives.
Robert Owen wanted to build small houses and provide workers with better salaries and good education for their children.
In 1830 charity organizations came to help children and their families.
In 1850 working became less difficult due to new, better machines.
The amount of children between the ages of five and fifteen attending school went from twenty percent in 1840 to about fifty in 1860.
In 1870, the education act was passed and it offered school for all children between the age of five and thirteen.
