Because cotton factories are highly unfavourable to health and morals of the workers. 3) (Close Reading) What evidence does Dr. Ward use to back his claim that factories were unhealthy and unsafe for children?
He talked about how he was a surgeon and kids would come in with their skin stripped to the bone.
What does Dr Ward mean when he calls factories nurseries of disease and vice document A *?
2) (Close Reading) What does he mean when he refers to factories as “nurseries of disease and vice”? he means that
the factories are a dirty and non safe place 3
.
What evidence does Dr Holme use?
Dr. Holme uses
his data from his 1796 examination of children in one factory
. Given this, Dr. Holme’s testimony is limited and therefore not very convincing.
What does disease and vice mean?
In the Platonic corpus, the analogy between vice and disease is also well attested3.
Bodily diseases
. are a model to understand vice in the soul; and in a general sense, vice—taken as a defect of a. natural being—sheds light on what should be defined as a disease.
How does Edward Baines describe factory life?
Baines claimed in his book that
“factory labour is far less injurious than many other forms of employment
“. He went on to argue that many of the factory children were born in bad health and that they “sink under factory labour, as they would under any kind of labour.”
What does they are really nurseries of disease and vice?
To get information on the health of workers in cotton factories 2. 2) (Close Reading) What does he mean when he refers to factories as “nurseries of disease and vice”? he means
that the factories are a dirty and non safe place 3
.
Do you think that English textile factories were bad?
How were textile factories bad for the health of English workers?
The workers had to work in foul air and did not get the right amount of food
. Their hands and hair would get caught in machines and they would have to be taken in to the doctors.
What did Edward Baines do?
A political Liberal, he supported the 1832 Reform Act and the 1834 new poor laws; he was an advocate of repeal of the corn laws and of the separation of church and state. He was an opponent of the factory reform movement and responsible for the Mercury’s rejection of Richard Oastler’s letters to it on the subject.
What was the appeal of the factory system?
The factory system was
a new way of making products that began during the Industrial Revolution
. The factory system used powered machinery, division of labor, unskilled workers, and a centralized workplace to mass-produce products.
How old was John Birley when he was interviewed?
1. John Allett started working in a textile factory when he was 14 years old. Allett was
53
when he was interviewed by Michael Sadler and his House of Commons Committee on 21 May 1832.
Which paper was Edward Baines the editor of?
Edward Baines (1774–1848) was the editor and proprietor of the Leeds Mercury, (which by his efforts he made the leading provincial paper in England), politician, and author of historical and geographic works of reference.
What were Britain’s advantages in the industrial revolution?
Britain had the advantage of
an absence of internal trade barriers
. This means that products and goods could move from one area of Britain to another, without being taxed. This encouraged internal British trade. In addition, the British government allowed its population to relocate to different towns.
What is the main reason the putting out system gave way to the factory system?
Q. What is the main reason the “putting-out” system gave way to the factory system in the British textile industry?
The factory system produced better quality cloth. The factory system did not require a natural supply of water power.
What impact did interchangeable parts have?
Interchangeable parts, popularized in America when Eli Whitney used them to assemble muskets in the first years of the 19th century, allowed relatively unskilled workers to produce large numbers of weapons quickly and at lower cost, and
made repair and replacement of parts infinitely easier
.
Who created the factory system?
Richard Arkwright
: Father of the factory system. Discover how Richard Arkwright kick-started a transformation in the textiles industry and created a vision of the machine-powered, factory-based future of manufacturing.
Who was John Birley?
John Birley was born in London in 1805. He lost both
his parents
by the age of 5, and he was sent to the Bethnal Green Workhouse. He soon began working at the Cressbrook factory. John was interviewed about his experiences as a child worker at the Mill in 1849.
