Document 1 : Q. Does this document portray a positive or negative effect of the Industrial Revolution? What is the 'Standard'? How do you know that? This document portrays the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. It’s a testimony by William Cooper before the Sadler committee. A committee to investigate the problem of child labor in textile factories. This testimony shows how negative the industrial revolution is towards the poor. William was one of the child labourers for the factories and this was his testimony showing how cruel and how his childhood was because all he did was work low wages to help him feed himself and his family. I know this because William states that he started working at the young age of ten and would work from
