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    not only made it possible to transport crops and food to different places‚ but made it possible for people to get fresh foods because they were transported much quicker. Another helpful invention was the seed drill‚ invented by Jethro Tull. Also‚ factories were now able to process and package meat and dairy products that could then be sent out all across the country‚ which fed the demand of a constantly

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    their profit by underpaying workers and putting their employees in a bad work environment. Furthermore‚ a supervisor in an OK Jamaica factory when being interviewed told his interviewers that the company is not able to ask for more money (so they can pay their workers more )from these retail companies as they threaten to go to a cheaper company in China. In many factories the employers are often more interested in hiring a worker cheaply rather hiring workers with qualifications. Thus they employed many

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    Then four years later in 1785‚ was when Edmund cartwright invented the powerloom‚ Which after 1800 was powered by new steam engines. Replaced by the flying shuttle. Five years later after that in the late 70s‚ 1790‚ cartwright changed all his big factories over from water power to steam engines. Then in 1799 about nine years later‚ some combination acts were made illegal in England for workers to unionize in order to bargain for higher pay and better working conditions.

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    team by more webbased market research and all fair registration was conducted via the web. To prepare to attend the fair‚ the project team also paid for membership-only access to the key Japanese shoe industry website for the targeted Bangladeshi factories involved in the program. From that site‚ they were able to

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    different employees at Standard Motor Products to determine how it is treating them and how factories are changing in time. Adam is receiving a tour of the plant by manager Tony Scalzitti where he sees many factory workers in blue lab coats‚ hair nets‚ and protective eyewear. This is where Adam first runs into Madelyn Parlier. Madelyn Parlier was a 22-year-old woman working in the assembly line at the factory. Her occupation was seemed to be an unskilled job and didn’t require much education or experience

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    of the new machines had a positive effect on the economic structure in term of increasing the industrial productivity. However‚ the poorly organized factory system during the revolution had a negative effect in the social structure in term of the employment structure and working conditions. This paper will examine the negative aspects of the factory system‚ and the development of the early stage trade union. The paper argues that the failure of government

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    effects. Working conditions in factories and other work environments were terrible. According to Elizabeth Bentley‚ she “ worked from five in the morning till nine at night.” The workers were working so much time‚ sometimes more than that. According to James Patterson‚ “there were no regular hours‚ masters and managers did with us as they wanted…” These

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    On average a factory worker would be payed oe schilling (5 pence in today’s money) a day. This was caused by competition with other factories. Buyers wanted the lowest price for their goods‚ and the easiest way a factory owner could lower the prices was to lower the wages. So the wages went lower and lower until eventually the workers would revolt. But the factory owner could easily sack the workers and hire new ones. There was also a lot of conflict between the factory owners who wanted low

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    most important connections were; factories caused dangerous working conditions‚ unions caused improved working conditions and the working class and dangerous working conditions caused unions to form. One significant connection I had was factories caused dangerous working conditions. I believe factories caused the dangerous working condition because of the complex machines the workers had to run. Another way the dangerous working conditions were caused by factories was because of how long people

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    impacted American labor because of the harsh way they treated children. They chose children as young as four to work in their factories. They worked in coal mines‚ factories‚ and many other places. They were often employed together with their parents and many parents in mill towns depended on their children to make enough money for necesities. They chose children because factory owners saw them as cheap and less likely to go on strike. They also chose them because in coal mines they could fit in

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