1750-1900: The Most Significant Developments In The Industrial Revolution
The period between 1750-1900 is called the Industrial Revolution. This phase contained social, economic and technological changes that improved their way of life. They had several more cures, which lead to a higher life expectancy. Additionally, they had better transport, however, the population increased by 30 million, which meant that it was overcrowded with people. Overall, the health, holidays and travel improved: but homes didn’t. The three most significant developments in the Industrial Revolution is transport, workhouses and agriculture.
Significant: Sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention.
Workhouses
In 1834 the Poor Law Amendment Law was carried out to try and solve the issue of poverty and corrupt behaviour. The workhouses were designed to judge people and be terrifying so people would not want to go there. The idea was that the poor were helped to support themselves. They were housed in workhouses, clothed, fed, and given free education and medical care in return for working several hours a day. Moreover, there were 80 workhouses in London whereby 1776 over 16,000 men, women and children were placed. Overall 5 million died inside the workhouse. …show more content…
Most men worked as agricultural labourers; they did jobs like stone breaking, corn grinding, rope picking, wood-chopping and bone-crushing.
However, some men worked as blacksmiths. The majority of women had domestic work. This included cleaning, laundry, vegetable picking, the kitchen and weaving. They did work for 10 hours a day 6 days a week. Even the children had jobs. They worked on farms, worked as servants and in factories. Additionally, they took part in pushing heavy coal trucks through tunnels in the coalmines. In addition, children were given useful jobs that could be needed in their
future.
Women, children and men were all split up and lived and worked in different areas of the workhouse. They could even be punished if they spoke to each other. All children had to work for 3 hours at least, be taught reading, writing, arithmetic and the main teachings of the Christian religion. The poor law also instructed that they had to train the children to habits of usefulness, industry and morality. This was very important because they educated more children, so they could have a chance of not becoming poor when they are older.
Every workhouse had an infirmary room that cared for sick inmates. But, it had poor sanitary facilities, terrible hygiene and was badly ventilated. The workhouse was quite inefficient in terms of the infirmary. This meant that a lot of inmates died from poor health. Furthermore, many poor people went to the workhouse for a last resort. This could include abandoned children and loss of parents/spouse. As there is free health care, many sick, poverty-stricken people stayed in a workhouse.
Overall, I believe that the workhouse was very significant in the Industrial Revolution because it changed poverty forever and helped reduce it. It also gave more penniless people a chance to change their future.
Significant: Sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention.
Workhouses
In 1834 the Poor Law Amendment Law was carried out to try and solve the issue of poverty and corrupt behaviour. The workhouses were designed to judge people and be terrifying so people would not want to go there. The idea was that the poor were helped to support themselves. They were housed in workhouses, clothed, fed, and given free education and medical care in return for working several hours a day. Moreover, there were 80 workhouses in London whereby 1776 over 16,000 men, women and children were placed. Overall 5 million died inside the workhouse. …show more content…
Most men worked as agricultural labourers; they did jobs like stone breaking, corn grinding, rope picking, wood-chopping and bone-crushing.
However, some men worked as blacksmiths. The majority of women had domestic work. This included cleaning, laundry, vegetable picking, the kitchen and weaving. They did work for 10 hours a day 6 days a week. Even the children had jobs. They worked on farms, worked as servants and in factories. Additionally, they took part in pushing heavy coal trucks through tunnels in the coalmines. In addition, children were given useful jobs that could be needed in their
future.
Women, children and men were all split up and lived and worked in different areas of the workhouse. They could even be punished if they spoke to each other. All children had to work for 3 hours at least, be taught reading, writing, arithmetic and the main teachings of the Christian religion. The poor law also instructed that they had to train the children to habits of usefulness, industry and morality. This was very important because they educated more children, so they could have a chance of not becoming poor when they are older.
Every workhouse had an infirmary room that cared for sick inmates. But, it had poor sanitary facilities, terrible hygiene and was badly ventilated. The workhouse was quite inefficient in terms of the infirmary. This meant that a lot of inmates died from poor health. Furthermore, many poor people went to the workhouse for a last resort. This could include abandoned children and loss of parents/spouse. As there is free health care, many sick, poverty-stricken people stayed in a workhouse.
Overall, I believe that the workhouse was very significant in the Industrial Revolution because it changed poverty forever and helped reduce it. It also gave more penniless people a chance to change their future.