The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact On Workers
The Industrial Revolution started in Britain from 1750-1900 and was a time of important industrial change. It had a severe impact on the lives of industrial workers in Britain. This is for three main reasons, firstly, that workers had dangerous working conditions with little safety precautions and limited resources. Secondly, that anybody could have to work in order to survive including children and pregnant women, and finally, because they had low wages with long hours, which left them with bad living conditions. The Industrial Revolution had both positive and negative effects overall. The positives include an increased volume and variety of manufactured goods, along with an improved standard …show more content…
It was the working conditions that made the workers lives so difficult, often times injuring or killing workers. In fact, in Britain, 1864 approximately 51 people were killed due to the falling of items down mine shafts, while 64 miners were killed by falling down the shaft (CB Media, 2016). People badly damaged their bodies by doing mine work from the lack of safety precautions. Betty Harris gave evidence at a Parliamentary Inquiry in 1842 when she was 37 years of age, she said that “She worked as a drawer in the mines, which means she would have to pull a heavy coal cart through a small mine by having a chin tied around her waist. Bettys’ skin would often peel off her hands, likely making her susceptible to disease” (Anderson, 2012, p. 59). Mines also had the tendency to flood when they had to be dug deeper and deeper for resources, meaning that Miners’ clothes would be soaked all day possibly leading to becoming sick. It was the struggles of workers that have helped to create the industrialized world we live in today, as CB Media, 2016 put it "The increase in tonnes of coal shipped over 200 years was as a result of hard work for those involved within the mines day to day". Therefore, working conditions were a very significant part of workers lives because work is where they would spend most of their
The Industrial Revolution started in Britain from 1750-1900 and was a time of important industrial change. It had a severe impact on the lives of industrial workers in Britain. This is for three main reasons, firstly, that workers had dangerous working conditions with little safety precautions and limited resources. Secondly, that anybody could have to work in order to survive including children and pregnant women, and finally, because they had low wages with long hours, which left them with bad living conditions. The Industrial Revolution had both positive and negative effects overall. The positives include an increased volume and variety of manufactured goods, along with an improved standard …show more content…
It was the working conditions that made the workers lives so difficult, often times injuring or killing workers. In fact, in Britain, 1864 approximately 51 people were killed due to the falling of items down mine shafts, while 64 miners were killed by falling down the shaft (CB Media, 2016). People badly damaged their bodies by doing mine work from the lack of safety precautions. Betty Harris gave evidence at a Parliamentary Inquiry in 1842 when she was 37 years of age, she said that “She worked as a drawer in the mines, which means she would have to pull a heavy coal cart through a small mine by having a chin tied around her waist. Bettys’ skin would often peel off her hands, likely making her susceptible to disease” (Anderson, 2012, p. 59). Mines also had the tendency to flood when they had to be dug deeper and deeper for resources, meaning that Miners’ clothes would be soaked all day possibly leading to becoming sick. It was the struggles of workers that have helped to create the industrialized world we live in today, as CB Media, 2016 put it "The increase in tonnes of coal shipped over 200 years was as a result of hard work for those involved within the mines day to day". Therefore, working conditions were a very significant part of workers lives because work is where they would spend most of their