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FACTORIES
- THE FACTORY
- DANGEROUS WORKING CONDITIONS
- Machinery had no protective measures
- Workers had no protective clothing
- The noise could cause deafness & heavy work caused deformities
- Machinery had no protective measures
- POOR SANITATION
- No proper toilet facilities
- The smell & overuse caused disease & illness
- No proper toilet facilities
- WAGES
- Cheaper to employ women & children
- Paid tokens rather than wages to buy goods they had made
- Paid some of their wages against factory owned accommodation
- Factory rules meant fine so less wages to pay
- Cheaper to employ women & children
- DANGEROUS WORKING CONDITIONS
- PAUPER APPRENTICES
- Given food, clothes & bed instead of wages
- Often worked day/night shifts
- early start, long days average 12 hours
- Worked before breakfast & only 2 short breaks for meals
- Mainly orphans as the factories agreed to house & train them
- Hard, physical labour
- Given food, clothes & bed instead of wages
- CHILDREN
- Employed as extra income for family
- Didn't go to school so kept them off the streets
- Cheap labour & easy to control
- Bullied & beaten by overseer so produced more & then he got paid better
- Employed as extra income for family
- NOT WILLING TO CHANGE
- Finance - cost to much to improve working conditions
- Have to consider the workers, especially children
- Possibly pay more
- May have to stop children working nights and/ 12 hour shifts
- May have to stop children working nights and/ 12 hour shifts
- Possibly pay more
- Have to consider the workers, especially children
- Finance - cost to much to improve working conditions
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