what were the effects on children during the industrial revolution?
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Awful, they were worked 16 to 18 hrs a day sometimes and just used to make money for the owers of “sweat shop” etc. They got very little pay and no breaks. My Dad was born in 1904 and he’s told me stories of carrying water to men building bridges for 5 cents an hour and he was five years old.
luminous
December 13, 2013 at 9:32 am
oh my gosh! we JUST did this in school. heres a bunch you can pick from
-their health deteriorated. a lot of the factories had poor conditions
-they were disconnected from their families. this was one job that women were allowed to do, so many of them jumped at it. result? the kids were practically orphans, or were
-they didnt have time to go to school, or get some basic education from their parents. they just worked
-they were emotionally corrupt. think about it, day in day out nothing but work-that would give them pretty screwed up personalities.
-very little pay
thats all i can think of right now, but use these and you might think of some of your own
hope this helped
french_tigress_in_america
December 13, 2013 at 10:04 am
the effects of the industrial revolution on children must be viewed in the larger context of urbanization and the shift from a rural/agrarian to an urban/industrial life. Work outside the home is the biggest shift.
In the traditional agrarian home a child’s work was integrated into family life. Very young children might feed chickens or do other simple repetitive tasks while older children took on more adult responsibilities as they became more physically able to do so. No matter the job, it would have been within the context of the family enterprise.
The urban/indusrtrial world meant that children went off to work in mines or factories for a wage. The obvious effect would be their exposure to danger as a part of every day life and many children were maimed or killed for the few pennies wage they brought into the family home.
Consider as well how it might be different for a child to spend 12 hours a day away from your family at work rather than spend all day working alongside your mother, father, brothers and sisters. Your opportunity to learn about life from
people who care about you would be all but gone.
On the positive side the factory ran all year long and your pennies came in winter and summer rather than being prey to the vagaries of weather and pestilence back on the land and for some lucky ones there was even medical care and basic education.
Duncan w
December 13, 2013 at 10:42 am