Technologic: Bessemer process (Machines produced) The Bessemer process was patented by Sir Henry Bessemer in 1855. This patent was for the decarbonization process, utilizing a blast of air. (About.com, 2015) This process was the first cheap industrial mass production procedure for making steel from pig iron and is used to remove the impurities from the iron by oxidation. The process was made in a Bessemer converter which was a large ovoid steel container lined with clay and dolomite, at the top of the converter there is an opening through which the iron is introduced and remove as steel when the process is finished. In the bottom there are a number of channels (tuyères) where the air is insert into the converter.
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In the document written by Berg & Hudson, they enmphasize that the reason of the small pay was that employers were more attracted by low wages and long hours at a time when no attention was yet paid to the inventive effects of payment by results of shorter hours. (2015)
Children labour was pretty common as well and they usually had a schedule of 19 hours a day. They were not paid; instead they received food and housing. Most of them died because of the danger in the factories, it was also usual to see teenagers working to support their families. (Nationwide Auto Transport, 2015)
Youth labour was so important and common that most of the factories modify the system of production to make it easier and productive for them. The female labour had also an important contribution in the industrial revolution because it was cheap and it had a good grade of quality. “Children and women were the key factors in labour intensity and, for this reason new work disciplines, new forms of subcontracting and putting-out networks, new factory organization, and new technologies were tried out initially on them.” (Berg & Hudson, 2015)
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Secondly, even though Britain had all the resources to succeed as a long term potency in the steel industry and trade, they fail to maintain their advantage in terms of the mass production and organization. As well, without the participation of Britain in the steel market, the economies involved in the trade of this commodity wouldn´t have had the accelerated development that occurred during that time. Finally, this kind of production process, as well as many others of the time, helped people to realize that the working class needed rights and needed to be defended against the industry
In the document written by Berg & Hudson, they enmphasize that the reason of the small pay was that employers were more attracted by low wages and long hours at a time when no attention was yet paid to the inventive effects of payment by results of shorter hours. (2015)
Children labour was pretty common as well and they usually had a schedule of 19 hours a day. They were not paid; instead they received food and housing. Most of them died because of the danger in the factories, it was also usual to see teenagers working to support their families. (Nationwide Auto Transport, 2015)
Youth labour was so important and common that most of the factories modify the system of production to make it easier and productive for them. The female labour had also an important contribution in the industrial revolution because it was cheap and it had a good grade of quality. “Children and women were the key factors in labour intensity and, for this reason new work disciplines, new forms of subcontracting and putting-out networks, new factory organization, and new technologies were tried out initially on them.” (Berg & Hudson, 2015)
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Secondly, even though Britain had all the resources to succeed as a long term potency in the steel industry and trade, they fail to maintain their advantage in terms of the mass production and organization. As well, without the participation of Britain in the steel market, the economies involved in the trade of this commodity wouldn´t have had the accelerated development that occurred during that time. Finally, this kind of production process, as well as many others of the time, helped people to realize that the working class needed rights and needed to be defended against the industry