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    Factory life during the Industrial Revolution was unhealthy and an utterly disgusting environment unsuitable for children, not only for the dangerous equipment, but also for the insufficient ability to tend to and take care of the children, even forcing and expecting them to lie in some circumstances. For example, one interview stated, ¨When I was a surgeon in the infirmary, accidents were very often admitted to the infirmary, through the children's hands and arms having being caught in the…

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    Sure there are many benefits that came from the industrial revolutions . The industrial revolution changed how we lived. The thing about this it said before this over 80 percent of the population had to leave on a farm without electricity in order to survive. Where if you was to tell somebody you live on a farm without any electricity now. People will ask you why? Yes, it changed education, electricity,transportation, medicine,clothing, and mass production was made possible. This also was…

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    went from agriculture to industrialization. Next was new technologies, national transportation, and new businesses. Technology helped transform the factory work and increased the scale of production. The two technologies that changed people daily life was steam and electricity. Electricity helped manufacturers to stop relying on water so factories were not located by the rivers anymore due to the new innovations. Technology also enabled managers to substitute machines for workers, skewing the…

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    author describes his experience working during his summer vacations as a factory worker. Setting the tone, he describes how he is more than happy to hit the books after laboring 12-hour days and earning meagre wages. As a result of his experience, the alternative is straightforward. "Factory life has shown me what my future might have been like had I never gone to college in the first place." "Sweating away my summers as a factory worker makes me more than happy to hit the books." He is…

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    Additionally, owners were constantly accused of committing exploitation against factory workers both young and old. The term exploitation is simply defined as the action of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work, which is precisely what happened in assembly lines in industrial revolution factories. Workers made very insignificant wages in dangerous conditions and worked brutal hours, and some were reportedly scarcely treated…

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    Europe, and quite possibly the world, because of the profit earned from colonization and the slave trade. It had a stable monarchy dating up to ages ago, and there was not much dissatisfaction amongst the people who profited from Britain’s success (“Factory and Marketplace Revolution”) (Condition #4). It also had the strongest navy in the world, the Royal Navy, with unparalled shipbuilding…

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    Industrial Revolution Dbq

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    Machines were replacing man’s hands which left many without jobs. This movement then forced people to work in the factories. The issue with that was there were not enough skilled workers to meet demands. The first issue had started within the textile industry. The cottage industries at the time were not producing enough cloth for the growing demands, which was then forced to open Cotton Factories. The fast inventions of the wheel was on the rise to push more production one individual could not…

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    Industrial Revolution was a period in the 18th century when the people of the United States began to create machines and methods to help do work faster and/or better. The started in the North when we started to replace cotton industries with textile factories, their methods started to pick up around the country. There were machines to help with cotton pick and separation, to create fabric, etc. The country didn't need to rely on countries in Europe for their fabric anymore. But while there were…

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    place in 1750 to 1950 it later speared throughout Europe, it was the transition to new manufacturing processes which started in Great Britain it saw a lot of change in Britain when manufacturing of goods moved from small shops and homes to large factories. This shift brought changes in agriculture, transportation, textile, metal production, economic views, politics and social structure as people moved from rural areas to big cities to work. It also introduced modern technologies, new types of…

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    Child Labor In The 1800s

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    One of the the first laws passed for child labor was Britain it was in 1833. Children under the age of 9 were able to work in coal mining. Children would usually work from 4:00 am to 5:00 pm. Kids would push carts of coal back and forward along mine tunnels the kids who did these were called putters. Others had different kind of different things to do while they were in the mines. Trapper would open doors and shut them to let air in and they would usually stay in a room that is pitch black dark…

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