1. Workers: Women and children and working conditions
By Aidan Brown and Gabriel Kotch

2. Children during the Industrial Revolution
At the start of the Industrial Revolution there was no legislation about working conditions in mills, factories or other industrial plants.
As the factories spread rapidly, mills, factories, and industrial plants needed more workers but the owners were unwilling to pay reasonable wages.
Children were employed because they were cheap and weren’t educated enough to argue for better living conditions.

3. Women during the Industrial Revolution
Many new jobs for women were created, and they were expected to work often in mills or mines.
However, no matter what jobs they were allowed to work at they were not allowed to become managers!
Middle class women were excused from working and were allowed to stay home.
Men believed women should not work.

4. Women Continued Like children, the hours were long and hard.
Women were forced with having more children then usual, because of high demand for the children.
The labor process impacted the strength of the mothers(some families had more then 10 children)

5. Labor Conditions
Industrial safety was a large issue, for many people were being killed or injured.
25,000-35,000 deaths occurred per year and over one million injuries occurred as well.

6. Wages and Hours
Children sometimes worked nineteen hours per day, with only one hour of break. These children could be as young as six years old.
Children often worked near very large, heavy, and dangerous equipment.
Many children were injured or killed and it wasn’t until the Factory act of 1833 that things improved.

7. Treatment
The treatment of children in factories was of often cruel, and the children’s safety was often neglected.
The people who the children served would beat the, verbally abuse them, and take no consideration for their safety.