How Did Women Industrial Workers Explain Their Economic Condition

Before the Industrial Revolution in the Great Britain in the 1800s, the British could not create cotton material easier or quick enough for people to meet their daily schedules and to produce agriculture such as fruits, vegetables, bread, water, and raised farm animals. It was very hard for farmers and cotton workers to facilitate their schedule or save time while there were no machines or factories that yet existed before they were invented or built. Since they were no existing machines or factories, the resources were not even strong enough to grow or create those things for the British residents. Cotton workers have to pick cotton from the cotton fields and instead of use or dependence on machines, they had to create cotton all by hand and
The passage was written by Examiner newspaper. They wrote a letter to the newspapers to consider the government to eliminate labor and work in women for certain reasons. One of the statements they made is that women are essential to providing for their families as well as the men and with a women working many hours just for minimal wages can jeopardize the family life. Child labor should also be eliminated but the women have more of a life and most of them need time to provide for their families. Instead they have to cut back on taking care of the family and the children to work several hours just for very little wages than men. The article also says that many of them also have the men in the families as well as taking care of the children and their families. When the men are at work, they cannot make the time to provide and take care of the children and to take place of the men when he is away at work because the women were required to work at their shifts in very hard labor. This is the reason why children lacked parental support and this is why families come home late home because everyone in the family was required to work from early morning to night and a lot of women were not available to work less hours and have time providing for the household while the men are working. They cannot ever have a livelihood at home because of their work conditions. They even suggested
The reading includes written interviews of three labor workers who have undergone the rough conditions in the textile industry and includes questions about their opinion about what their life would be like if they can work less hours a day and probably earn higher wages. Michael Sadler interview the three workers named Joshua Drake, Matthew Crabtree, John Hall, Elizabeth Bentley, and Peter Smart. Many of those people witnessed those conditions from other workers and felt with them as well. Many of them worked for many hours from early morning to night and received minimal wages without any assistance. Many of them mentioned that the children were pushed to be on time for work and to work at a certain unrealistic way without stopping whenever they were sick, fatigued or overworked. Otherwise, they’d face physical punishment such as whipping and stripping. Some mentioned that they worked since young age. They had no time for breakfast, no lunch, no family or friend time, lack of breaks during the day. Whenever workers come home every night they only had time for dinner then immediately going to bed and some lack sleep because some wake up early in the morning to be on time as expected by the master, and repeat the day. Some workers cried in their mills for justice in working. Michael Sadler also wrote this article and interviewed to workers to make a change in working rights and convinced the government to