National 5 History: Unit 2 Changing Britain- Textile Factories
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- Textile Factories
- Working conditions
- Lack of windows
- No heating system
- Workers frequently would breathe in soot, oil & cotton fibres
- Beatings were common
- No safety regulations, injuries and deaths were common
- Limbs were also known to be lost if caught in machinery. Machinery would not have an 'emergency stop'
- Very long days 12-14 hours: short break if at all
- Why did the industrial revolution happen?
- New technology on factories
- Flying Shuttle
- Increased speed of production and width of cotton cloth
- Steam driven water pumps
- Faster production
- Richard Roberts
- Semi-automatic mule for more cost-efficient production
- Loom with cast iron frame for more efficient production
- Flying Shuttle
- Laws passed to improve conditions
- 1802 FACTORY ACT
- All factories ventilated
- Children between 9-13 8 HOURS MAX, older children no more than 12 hours
- All factories ventilated
- 1833 FACTORY ACT
- Lunch breaks for children added and hours further cut
- No one under 18 to work at night
- 4 inspectors to enforce act
- No one under 18 to work at night
- Lunch breaks for children added and hours further cut
- 1844 FACTORY ACT
- Deaths must be reported and investigated
- Machinery to be fenced in
- Ages must be verified
- Machinery to be fenced in
- Deaths must be reported and investigated
- 1847 FACTORY ACT
- Workers not exceed 58 hour week
- 1802 FACTORY ACT
- Reasons for improvement for the workers in factories
- 1832 Royal Commission set up to investigate conditions for workers
- Lord Shaftsbury and Sir Robert Peel campaigned for better conditions for workers
- Cotton Mills
- Jobs
- Carding: de-tangling cotton threads using hand cards
- Scavengers: Cleaning around and under machines, normally as they are moving
- Spinning the cotton onto thread
- Weaving thread into cloth
- Spinning the cotton onto thread
- Scavengers: Cleaning around and under machines, normally as they are moving
- Carding: de-tangling cotton threads using hand cards
- 1802 cotton industry accounted for 4/5% of income in Britain
- Jobs
- Working conditions
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