Industrial+Revolution's+effect+on+Working+Class

Hannah Lian

Discuss the inventions of the Industrial Revolution and the new Industrial working class that followed.

Inventions: James Hargreaves- spinning jenny Richard Arkwright- water frame spinning machine Samuel Crompton- mule Edmund Cartwright- power loom Newcomen- steam pump James Watt- Steam engine Richard Trevithick- steam powered locomotive George Stephenson- //Rocket//

Living conditions: heap of manure on one side of the house filthy no doors back-to-back housing earth floors one outdoor privy for the use of the entire terrace small overcrowded rooms many forced to live in cellars 5 persons to one bed streets used as drains death outnumbered birth in most cities adulteration of food cholera

Working conditions: 12-16 hour a day, 6 days a week half an hour breaks for lunch and dinner no security of employment no minimum wage cotton mills were kept at 80 to 84 degrees in coal mines cave-ins, explosions, and gas fumes were abundant cramped and damp mine led to deformed bodies and ruined lungs children were beaten

Pictures: http://www.laugalaekjarskoli.is/verk/NaAm2/myndir/sweeper-and-doffer-in-cotton-mill.jpg

http://talonssephr.edublogs.org/files/2011/04/industrial-revolution-children-labor-1yr2z0n.jpg

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/the_industrial_town/06.ST.02/img/IM.1065_zl.jpg

http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org/!file/oldhistory.jpg/

Source:

http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/housingo.htm