Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution was a time of change in which machines helped produce goods more efficiently. This time of change resulted from technological advancements, mostly in factories, which allowed machines to replace human labor. However, human labor was a very big part in the mills and mines. A large number of people were needed to do some of these jobs, and some were even forced into working. The conditions in many of the mills and mines were not very good at all. Because of the horrible atrocities that went on, more and more people began to take notice and write about the experiences. Among these are, Robert Bincoe, who told of his apprenticeship at a cotton mill, Thos Tooke, T. Southwood Smith, Leonard Horner, and Robert J. Saunders, who wrote an influential report on child labor in the coal mines, an observer who wrote about the women workers in the coal mines in Scotland, and Dr. James Phillips Kay, who while being a doctor in Manchester, studied and wrote about his poor patients and the hard times that they were going through. Many times, children were forced into labor. They were sent many miles away from their homes and became apprentices. Robert Blincoe, as a young child was sent to be an apprentice at a
They involved horses, carriages, men, women, and boys. It says, "That partly by the severity of the labour and the long hours of work, and partly through the unhealthy state of the place of work, this employment, as at present carried on in all the districts, deteriorates the physical constitution; in the thin-seam mines, more especially, the limbs become crippled and the body distorted; and in general the muscular powers give way, and the workpeople are incapable of following their occupation, at an earlier period of life than is common in other branches of industry. " (Unknown, Scotland's Women Slaves) The huskier women did some pretty heavy work for a women back then, "we have seen a women, during the space of time above mentioned, take on a load of at least 170 pounds avoirdupois, travel with this 150 yards up the slope of the coal below the ground, ascend a pit by stairs 117 feet, and travel upon the hill 20 yards or more to where the coals are laid down. He says, "Having been subjected to the prolonged labour of an animal-his physical energy wasted-his mind in supine inaction-the artizan has neither moral dignity nor intellectual nor organic strength to resist the seductions of appetite. This labor was extremely hard for these women, but it was their choice whether or not to do it. The children's mothers and fathers usually worked in the mines as well because they were so poor. This labor was long and tiring, and most people became physically and mentally worn down. In Scotland, there were basically four different ways of transporting coals to the pit. The four documents all talked about some form of cruelty in the work place. He also tells about his own experiences, "I have seen the time when two hand-vices of a pound weight each, more or less, have been screwed to my ears, at Lytton mill in Derbyshire," recalls Blincoe. James Phillips Kay, took note of these people's experiences by studying his poorer patients.
Common topics in this essay:
Own Story,
Women Slaves,
Slaves Scotland,
Robert Blincoe,
Manufacture Manchester,
Cotton Operatives,
Coal Mines,
,
Phillips Kay,
Operatives Kay,
coal mines,
women slaves,
scotland's women slaves,
scotland's women,
children coal mines,
life people,
people packet,
manchester cotton,
cotton operatives,
unknown scotland's women,
factory life,
factory life people,
james phillips,
manchester cotton operatives,
unknown scotland's,
|
Acceptance Essays
