Despite the Industrial Revolution having a profound effect on the economy and the development of many nations, the cost of the growth and prosperity on the masses of the working class people were brutal. Working class men, women and children working in factories were exploited by the factory owners and managers. They were forced to work in horrible conditions, with long hours of labor, while enduring abusement from their bosses and all the while they worked for a meek wage that was taken advantage by their selfish factory owners. The similarities seen between factory’s conditions in England and Japan were evident with nearly all factory owners and managers exploiting and abusing their workers. And workers deprived of basic right. With time
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In group 2, according to Document 8, Sakura Takuji, relives her life as a “mill girl”, during that time she recalls the workers were plagued with illnesses and horrible work conditions, not only that but they were also sexually assaulted by their male supervisors, who also had the keys to their dorm rooms, thus sexual abuse and rape ran rampant in the factories. Takuji has a extremely negative view of being a female factory worker in Japan because she was once a “mill girl” and personally witness the unjust the females had gone through. Women had only themselves to support, and the employers know of that, therefore female workers are easily exploited and preyed upon (Document 7). In document 9, several stanzas from a song is shown, in it, it explains the exploitation of females in factories and how they were easily discarded like trash when they are not needed. Furthermore the passages goes on saying the company felt more like a house of prostitutions where they were used and abused rather than a place of work. “The girls were soon tired of holding out, and they went back to their work at the reduced rate of wages”. This quote essentially sums up the power the females had in factories and a further elaboration of greed shown by factories owners. The females had absolutely no power and the greed of …show more content…
According to Document 1, female workers made up the mass of the factories, as they made up 60-90% of the factories’ population. With nearly have of them being adolescents or children. In Document 2, similarly in Japan, in Silk mills the bulk of the population were females making up 92% of the workers. Out of 12,519 female workers, 18% of them were children, half of them were between 15-20 years of age and lastly adults made up 34% of the workers. Most of the workers in the textiles mills were females and children because they were easily exploited and they were readily replaceable and cheap. There should be an additional two documents at the very least to show the improvement of factory conditions improve of wages and more rights for the workers. This would further give us an insight on how the human rights aspect of factory work developed because of the horrible exploitation of workers, and how they fought for their
In group 2, according to Document 8, Sakura Takuji, relives her life as a “mill girl”, during that time she recalls the workers were plagued with illnesses and horrible work conditions, not only that but they were also sexually assaulted by their male supervisors, who also had the keys to their dorm rooms, thus sexual abuse and rape ran rampant in the factories. Takuji has a extremely negative view of being a female factory worker in Japan because she was once a “mill girl” and personally witness the unjust the females had gone through. Women had only themselves to support, and the employers know of that, therefore female workers are easily exploited and preyed upon (Document 7). In document 9, several stanzas from a song is shown, in it, it explains the exploitation of females in factories and how they were easily discarded like trash when they are not needed. Furthermore the passages goes on saying the company felt more like a house of prostitutions where they were used and abused rather than a place of work. “The girls were soon tired of holding out, and they went back to their work at the reduced rate of wages”. This quote essentially sums up the power the females had in factories and a further elaboration of greed shown by factories owners. The females had absolutely no power and the greed of …show more content…
According to Document 1, female workers made up the mass of the factories, as they made up 60-90% of the factories’ population. With nearly have of them being adolescents or children. In Document 2, similarly in Japan, in Silk mills the bulk of the population were females making up 92% of the workers. Out of 12,519 female workers, 18% of them were children, half of them were between 15-20 years of age and lastly adults made up 34% of the workers. Most of the workers in the textiles mills were females and children because they were easily exploited and they were readily replaceable and cheap. There should be an additional two documents at the very least to show the improvement of factory conditions improve of wages and more rights for the workers. This would further give us an insight on how the human rights aspect of factory work developed because of the horrible exploitation of workers, and how they fought for their