Working Conditions Of Workers In Factories Dbq

At times of the Industrial Revolution inventions and ideas spread around nations and helped them to evolve to have a quicker and cheaper way of doing things. The Industrial Revolution mainly took place during the 1700s and the 1800s all around the world.Work before the Industrial Revolution was done in rural areas and took a lot of time to get the work done, but later it was mostly done in factories . Steam powered machines allowed the work in factories to be done at a quicker and much cheaper way. These machines in the textile mill factories were usually done by females because the employers almost always targeted them. Many nations at the time took in the ideas of other nations to make their way of doing things better but to also equally
In factories the working conditions of workers were not good. Workers would have cut off limbs ad even worst they could be killed if they were not careful when working. Also the workers would have long hours with little to no breaks and if they were to lack on their job they would be punished. As stated in the excerpt, Okaya Japan (1900), workers would have thirteen to fourteen hour days with fifteen minute breaks for breakfast and lunch and then only two more ten minute breaks, (Doc 5). If a worker has an average working day of thirteen to fourteen days with little breaks it makes their life and working conditions stressful and harsh. It would be hard for the workers to do this as they would become tired and then would lack on work. As a result of lacking they would be punished. The female workers in England were treated almost the same way in the hours they worked and other conditions in the workplace. As reported by the primary source Hannah Goode’s to the Factory Inquiry Commission, (England, 1833) it tells how workers would work from five in the morning till seven at night with breaks only to eat their dinner meal, (Doc 10). The English female workers from the document shows how they would work about thirteen to fourteen hour days and with only one break the young female will most likely not be able to function properly and as a
Japan and England although separated by almost a century worth of time had a similar experience in the Industrial Revolution in female factory worker wages, working conditions, and the percentage of female workers. Female workers in both Japan and England were not paid as well as they would most likely want. There pay isn’t enough to get all the resources they would like to support their family. On the other hand males would receive much more. Working condition of both nations weren’t better either. The female workers would work about thirteen to fourteen hour days and would get barely any break time. Finally there was about an eighty five percent difference in female workers to males because the women were the ones that were targeted because of their smaller body. The struggles women went through were definitely tough to go through but opened up a whole new opportunity for women to strive in the modern time. In present day women are getting treated much better in areas that the Industrial Revolution went through as there is work going on to close the wage gap, make sure there is diversity is in a workplace and make sure the pay workers are receiving match the work they put