The employment of women and children during the Industrial Revolution represented a continuation of the preindustrial kinship. Women replaced men in factory working positions‚ as seen in the 1851 illustration of plenty of women working in a cotton mill. Although these jobs were open to women‚ they were not‚ however‚ granted gender equality. Suffrage for women was still denied‚ and women were paid half‚ or even less than half of what men were paid. The lives of children were also majorly impacted
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Slater’s life he owned thirteen spinning mills‚ established tenant farms‚ and towns around his textile mills such as Slatersville‚ Rhode Island. Slatersville was one of his first mill villages. Many political and economic people knew him. The fact that he is the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” puts him on top of everyone. He revived American Industrialism and the creation of the Textile industry. When Andrew Jackson met him in one of his mills‚ he gave him the name “Father of the American
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My source is an interview with a clothier that explains the conditions and behaviours of children who work in the mills. Robert Owen‚ a British socialist‚ was born on 14 May 1771 at Newtown‚ Montgomeryshire‚ Wales. In 1799‚ Owen purchased the mills in New Lanark‚ Scotland. The employees’ well-being‚ including a few hundred poor children‚ were highly regarded by Owen and the mills were producing high quality products which made them famous. Owen wanted to remove the competitive economy by adding
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in England in the mid 1700s and greatly increased the output of machine-made goods. Inventions‚ such as canals‚ crop rotation‚ and factories/mills‚ spurred the Revolution (Ch 9 Sec 1). The idea later then arrived in Asia‚ mostly Japan‚ about 70 years after the first textile‚ or fabric‚ mills were built in the United States. In building the different cotton and silk factories‚ the Japanese were influenced by England‚ Italy‚ and America to use their ideas for
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Women worked in textile mills‚ as servants and as needleworkers; however‚ their jobs were not gratifying. Although women were paid less than men‚ “they tended to do what they were told‚ and did not complain about the extensive hours and bad working conditions” (Bellamy and Morse
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all of the rest. Primarily‚ the change in agricultural output led to the change in the need workers. Moreover‚ in the south‚ as talked about in the book‚ the cotton industry was beginning to boom at rates where plantations became so large they needed more workers. Mainly‚ these plantations owners would end up buying slaves to harvest the cotton. In the video “Brotherly Love”‚ it talked about the tens of thousands of slaves that were forced into the south per decade. This‚ in large part‚ can be attributed
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Industrial revolution Although it occurred around the same time as the French‚ American‚ Latin American‚ and Haitian Revolutions between‚ say‚ 1750 and 1850—the industrial revolution was really the most revolutionary of the bunch. No way‚ dude. All those revolution resulted in‚ like new borders and flags and stuff. We have studied 15‚000 years of history here at crash course‚ me from the past. And borders and flags have changed plenty‚ and they’re going to keep changing. But in all that
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American civil war and The Revolution‚ a new more commercial state was developed after the death of an old subsistence world. The American integrated industrial revolution technology into a new marketable economy. New national transportation networks and mills powering were fueled by a technology that moved steam boats‚ railroads and steam power. The market revolution spread across the nation and farmers grew more crops for commercial purposes. Cities and factories arose in the northern region. A new middle
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The Industrial Revolution happened after the Agricultural Revolution had taken place. This advance in the farming communities had required less people to work the land. Therefore‚ there were more young people available to marry at younger ages‚ which lead to a population boom. In the mid -1700s the population in Britain was 5.7 million‚ by the end of the century the population increased to 8.7 million people. As a result‚ there was abundant of a raw resource and this was children. Just the raw material
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children of the poor were expected to help towards the family budget‚ often working long hours in dangerous jobs for low pay‚ earning 10-20% of an adult male’s wage. In England and Scotland in 1788‚ two-thirds of the workers in 143 water-powered cotton mills were described as children‚]In 19th-century Great Britain‚ one-third of poor families were without a breadwinner‚ as a result of death or abandoning of them. Some boys who were not even able to get into the industries they would have had to start
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