How was the Daily life for Factory Workers in the 19th Century?



Chldren working in factories



  

                       During the 19th century only men were allowed to vote, mostly about 80 percent of the population was only working class. There were also large families during the 19th century, which was bad because the wages were very low, during the late 19th century ever since the new industrial revolution it gave middle class people more jobs. Instead of them working in their own houses with their family they worked in factories. It caused a major change for all people. The Industrial Revolution caused child labor during the 19th century. Mostly there were more females working, when the children were working in the textile factories most of them only worked around 12 hours a day. 
                   Unfortunately during that time all the children weren't going to school, they mostly expected to go to the factories to work. In the early 19th century there was a new parliament for child labor. It was a law to ban children under 9 years old from working in the factories. Children who were 13 and over was expected to work no more than 69 hours a week which was according from the article. Fortunately during the 1900 all the way till 1914 the economy was ,more better since there was less unemployment. According to the article there was lesser unemployment till the mid 1970's.



Child Labor in factories









Source from:http://www.localhistories.org/work.html

How Did the Factory Workers Social Class Impact Their Lives?



This picture is a picture of factory wokers working in machines.



Even women and men works in the factorys.
This picture shows how small and uncomfortable the factory 's are.

    
         Most Factory Workers felt that the owners of the factories were taking advantages of them, since the workers wanted a fair amount of share in their profits, workers started labor shifts. It wasn't all factories that made them feel like they were being taking advantage but most were, some were fair. It's true the in the 19th century it was really a hard time for factory workers or any people working in general. Due to all the stress workers have been put up too it increased for frustration for the working classes. Most places in the United states according to the article that workers face very slow responds due to the health conditions depending which cities they lived in, this made problems come rapidly. With all the problems that were occurring it took a long time for owners to respond. Unfortunately the upper classes really gave no support for middle factory workers. No mater how hard working the factory workers pushed their effort it was difficult for them to have a higher raise for all their working. There were plenty of working classes that were hungry and a lot of desperate workers to gain money for them and their family, which is why children started working for child labor.

This Picture shows how the factory looks in the 19th century

Source from: http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/distance/hist/factory.htm

What Role did the factory workers play in the formation of our nation?

  

Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, p. 202. Kennedy lists his source for these figures as  International Industrialization Levels from 1750 to 1980, by Bairoch,  pp. 294, 302.





Women working in small working conditions
 in the factoryproducing clothes.
                                                                                    
                             During the 1900's The United states had an important production of iron and steel, which also had Britain take place in. Mostly it was the United States that had most of the world’s production on Iron and steel. According to the article "The United states had about 23.6 percent of the world’s total against Britain which had about 18.5 %." Mostly what the United States also produced was cotton, corn and oil as well coal and the gold. The growth in the agriculture was also being experience by the United States. In Most of the areas in the United States they were many poor people. People who lived in the cities were mostly the Factory workers, they lived cities and towns that had the population about 2,500 people. Also Most of the factory workers they lived in the unsanitary tenements,cause of the Factory workers they helped produced all the production of the iron steel corn etc. With the rise of the industries clothing stores, catalogs, shopping by the telephone where made, it mostly made a huge rise for technology, as well with electricity  Most importantly the Factory workers helped make products more cheaper, as well workers made prodcuts more quicker. 

 
Source from: http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch03.htm



Workers from the factoies all gathered up
protesting that their wages isn't fair enough