1800's
In the 1800's the women were left at home to tend to their own little world, while the men left the farms and started into the world of shops, offices, etc. As time progressed, women realized that with the men gone they had some impact in the churches.
As a result of this the women became excited and the thirst for more power grew. The clergy tried hard to put the flame out but lost. Women realized that they could do what a man does. The men went of to fight, while the stores, shops and businesses were left in the care of the women. That women's empowerment movement movement was the beginning of getting women there equal rights and pay etc. That was the beginning of women getting what they deserve! |
In the 1800's children as young as six worked hard hours in factories for little or no pay during the industrial revolution. Children sometimes worked up to 19 hours a day, with only a one-hour break for the whole day. This was a little bit on the extreme side to us now, but it was not common for children who worked in factories to work 12-14 hours with the same minimal breaks. Not only were these children forced to work those long hours, but also, they were in terrible conditions. Huge, heavy, and dangerous equipment was not uncommon for children to be using or working with. Many accidents occurred killing or injuring kids on the job. Not until the Factory Act of 1833 did things get better. Children were paid only a fraction of what an adult would get payed, and sometimes factory owners would get away with paying the children nothing. Orphans were the ones forced to do this slave-like labor. The children who did get paid were always paid the minimum. . |
"The smallest child in the factories were scavengers……they go under the machine, while it is going……….it is very dangerous when they first come, but they become used to it."
Charles Aberdeen worked in a Manchester cotton factory, written in 1832.
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