Industrial Revolution: Factories
The immigrants worked in the factories, they were not always safe, the noise machines could make someone deaf the lighting ventilation was terrible they never had any training if there were any fires or accidents it was very unhealthy it threatened growing children. they only got paid a few 100 dollars a year 12 hours a day 6 days a week. even more when they had to meet production goals.
Some factory owners were better than others when it came to looking after their work force. Arkwright was one of these. He had some harsh factory rules (such as workers being fined for whistling at work or looking out of the window) .this picture shows assembly line workers.
Kids Working
a lot of the children their came from orphanages and they could be replaced easily if accidents did occur they were much cheaper than adults as a factory owner did not have to pay them as much they were small enough to crawl under machinery to tie up broken threads they were young enough to be bullied by ‘strappers’
Accident to young mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mille [i.e., Mill], Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old.
during the Industrial Revolution it was very dangerous to work in the factories . especially kids because the ventilation was poor , it was hot, the lighting was poor. and it was a very unhealthy area to be in. they work 12 hours a day with maybe a one hour break. they only got paid a few 100 dollars a year.