Working Conditions during the Industrial Revolution

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

• Low wages
• Safe working conditions
• Dangerous working conditions
• Widespread pollution

Mining companies preferred child workers because:

• They didn't know facts

• Children were smaller than adults and could move around small spaces

• People wanted them to suffer in pain

• people wanted them to know what its like to go through life as an adult

Which of the following is NOT a job in which child labor was used

• coal mining
• clothes making
• medicine
• farm work

Which of the following best describes mining conditions?

• dangerous, long hours, and low pay
• clean, dark and cold
• high pay and high danger
• all workers were treated fairly

What were working conditions like in factories during the Industrial Revolution? [7-3.4]

• Workers enjoyed a clean and safe working environment.
• Workers had great relationships with the factory owners.
• Workers received good pay and received health benefits.
• Workers used dangerous machines and the hours were long.

"yes, in the morning, I could scarcely walk...if I had a thousand pounds I would give them to have the use of my limbs again"
According to the testimony above what impact did child labor in the factories have on children's health?

• their health would increase and get stronger
• their health would decrease often losing the use of their limbs
• their health would not be impacted
• their health would only be impacted if they lost a limb

Thomas Hood, from the "The Song of the Shirt" a poem that appeared in Punch Magazine (London) in 1843 and quickly became a public sensation, being turned into a popular song.

With fingers weary and worn,With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch!In poverty, hunger, and dirt,And still with a voice of dolorous pitch.   She sang the "Song of the Shirt."

The above poem represents women from what new social class created as a result of the Industrial Revolution. 

• The Middle Class
• Peasant Farming Class
• The Industrial Working Class
• The Upper Class

One on the major complaints made by factory reformers concerned the state of the buildings that the children were forced to work in. Dr. Ward, who visited textile factories in Manchester in 1819 wrote: 

"I have had frequent opportunities of seeing people coming out from the factories and occasionally attending as patients. Last summer I visited three cotton factories with Dr. Clough of Preston and Mr. Barker of Manchester and we could not remain ten minutes in the factory without gasping for breath. How it is possible for those who are doomed to remain there twelve or fifteen hours to endure it? If we take into account the heated temperature of the air, and the contamination of the air, it is a matter of astonishment to my mind, how the work people can bear the confinement for so great a length of time." 

How did the creation of factories impact the environment?

• Factories created a more suitable environment
• Factories caused increased air and water pollution
• Factories did not have an impact on the environment
• Factories used up all the drinking water

In reality there were no regular hours, masters and managers did with us as they liked. The clocks in the factories were often put forward in the morning and back at night. Though this was known amongst the hands, we were afraid to speak, and a workman then was afraid to carry a watch.-Frank Forrest, Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy (1850) 

According to the paragraph above factory workers suffered from which of the following?

• harsh punishments
• insufficient diet
• harsh punishments
• long working hours