WORKING CONDITIONS

BACKGROUND

• Made up 80% of society
• Population increasing
• People move near factories for work
• High unemployment rate

EMPLOYMENT

• 1,500,000 are fully employed
• 1,500,000 have part time jobs
• 1,500,000 are unemployed

TEXTILE FACTORIES

• No laws regulating
• Made skilled workers unemployed
• Skilled workers used to earn 20-30
• Workers in factories earned less than 5

COMBINATION ACTS

• 1799 and 1800
• Illegal to unionize and combine
• Could not ask for better working conditions

GENERAL WORKING CONDITIONS

• Worked 10-14 hours
• 6 days a week
• No vacation or holidays
• Injured workers would lose their job
• No health care or financial compensation

WORKING CONDITIONS CONTINUED

• Workers could not talk to neighbors or family
• Could not return to their home for harvest
• No longer their own bosses