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Good Morning!! 1.Textile Factories Evidence Round 1 2.Video Clip Corroboration 3.Textile Factories Evidence Round 2 Essential Question: Were textile factories bad for the health of child workers? Homework: Finish Textile Factories activity as needed

Historical Inquiry Were textile factories bad for the health of child workers?

Evidence Round 1 Document A Dr. Ward, Manchester doctor treated factory children – Been doctor in Manchester for 30 years Bad environement, struggle to breathe after a few minutes “Nurseries of vice and disease” – No respect 106 children, 47 were injured from injunires – Arms and fingers ripped off my machinery – Skin and muscles ripped to the bone Document B Dr. Holme, similar to Doc B as is also being interviewed – Interviewed by same committee – Worked similar amount of time – INVITED by factory owner Thinks factories are pretty awesome – 363 of 400 kids are okay

Corroboration! Which account (Document A or B) does this account more closely match? Were textile factories bad for the health of child workers?

Working Conditions Overview Factory workers are mostly small farmers that lost jobs, but also many children Terrible Conditions – Long hours (14 hr days) – Low pay ($1 per day) – Frequent injuries – Break-up of traditional farm family Why? – Labor easy to find – Owners want most profit

Women in Factories Opportunity for women – Higher wages and increased independence – “I think that the factory is the best place for me and if any girl wants employment, I advise them to come to Lowell”—Mary Paul, 1846

The Triangle Factory Fire “I was walking through Washington Square when a puff of smoke coming from the factory building caught my eye. I reached the building before the alarm was turned on. I saw every feature of the tragedy visible from outside the building. I learned a new sound--a more horrible sound than description can picture. It was the thud of a speeding, living body on a stone sidewalk. Thud-dead, thud-dead, thud-dead, thud-dead. Sixty-two thud-deads. I call them that, because the sound and the thought of death came to me each time, at the same instant. There was plenty of chance to watch them as they came down. The first ten thud-deads shocked me. I looked up and saw that there were scores of girls at the windows. The flames from the floor below were beating in their faces. Somehow I knew that they, too, must come down. I watched one girl fall. Waving her arms, trying to keep her body upright until the very instant she struck the sidewalk, she was trying to balance herself. Then came the thud--then a silent, unmoving pile of clothing and twisted, broken limbs.”— eye-witness William Shepherd, Milwaukee Wisconsin, March 25 th 1898

The Triangle Factory Fire

Persuasive Prompt: Textile Factories YOU are a member of the House of Lords Committee investigating child labor. Based on these documents, do you think working in textile factories was harmful for child workers? – Use TWO pieces of historical evidence. – Please be sure to explain WHY you found this evidence convincing