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Factory life during the industrial revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the the industrial revolution, the movement of people away from their tradition agriculture into industrial cities brought great stress to many people in the work force. This brought stress esp...
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Well, simply for this reason,-every situation in life, has its trials which must be borne, and factory life has no more than any other. There are many things we do not like;
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“The Treatment of the Help in Those Days Was Cruel”: Hiram Munger Remembers Factory Life ... Although I was young, I recollect of thinking that life must be a burden if I was obliged to work in a factory under such tyrants as the Jenks' were then,and they never improved, unless it was when they failed and cheated...
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Factory Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848 ... At half past four in the morning the factory bell rings, and at five the girls must be in the mills. A clerk, placed as a watch, observes those who a re a few minutes behind the time, and effectual means are taken to stimulate to punctuality.
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In what follows, I shall confine myself to a description of factory life in Lowell, Massachusetts, from 1832 to 1848, since, with that phase of Early Factory Labor in New England, I am the most familiar-because I was a part of it.
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Factory labour is a species of work, in some respects singularly unfitted for children. ... John Fielden, although himself a Lancashire factory owner, was one of the staunchest fighters for protective legislation for the cotton worker. His difficulties are such as today in the Southern states of the United States are...
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TALES OF FACTORY LIFE, No. 1; [from Lowell Offering, 1841] ... thought if I took her when she was so young, I could prevent her being crazy to get into the factory; but there is no such thing now-a-days. I wish from my heart there was not a factory this side of France. I'll see if you won't come down." She entered the...
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