How Did Working Class Improve The Living Conditions Before The Industrial Revolution

Before the Industrial Revolution life for the working-class was very community based and most people were living in the country side. According to (Allen, 2017) the lower-class people rode horses to travel everywhere and was community based as people got their entertainment from the local fairs, people in the town would work in small shops, kill the animals for food, baked their own bread and more without the help of machines. People who owned land or were wealthy had all the power then. In this essay I am going to show the living conditions of working class did improve and areas where the conditions were not improved.
The Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) started in the countryside as changes were made in agriculture. The population in the
Factory systems, (Morgan, 2004) have encouraged workers to work longer because it would increase their wages and for them to come to work regularly. Since many workers were working overtime they would need a lot of stamina to keep up with the machines and not slack off because there was a high risk of injury if they did. The over work they did also had a huge risk to their health (Morgan, 2004). The workers were also encouraged to continue their work at home and that meant that they were always working with hardly any breaks and they had to work at home as well to make sure that the products were being produced enough for the increasing demand of them (Morgan, 2004). From the first industrial revolution website it shows that child labour was at its peak during the industrial revolution because they are smaller and were paid less than 10 cents an hour with fourteen hours a day and employers took that information to their advantage as they do not have to give out as much money if they hired child workers instead of adult ones (Poddar, not dated). The work that children do often caused them to become physically handicapped and it was difficult for them to
Acts such as the Second Reform Act as it gave every man in the country the right to vote and that means that the working class have a political voice and they have more representation in Parliament (Hill, 1985). In the second half of the 19th century acts such as the Public Health Act 1875 (Hill, 1985). This Act was successful as it took all the laws about health into one code and was used in every council and there were consequences if the code was breached (Hill, 1985). These acts motivated acts to improve housings to get passed because the houses that were being built during this time was in terrible condition and were breaching the code and it was decided to put a general standard to how the houses should be built, and housing estates were created for the working-class (Hill, 1985). This also improved the working class because it improved the conditions of their houses and they were exposed to less