CVS3

By rosymen
  • First Poor Law

    under Elizabeth I
    parish / poor rates / poor relief
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    Domestic system

    = 'putting out system' = 'cottage industry'
    Home/small workshops - Goods made by hand /unsophisticated tools
    piece work
    independent, entire families, combine industrial work with farming
  • John KAY - The flying shuttle

  • James HARGREAVES - The spinning Jenny

    => mechanized weaving
  • Richard ARKWRIGHT - Water frame

    paved the way for the factory system => "mills" near fast-flowing rivers
  • James WATT- The steam engine

  • Adam SMITH - The Wealth of Nations

  • Samuel CROMPTON - the spinning mule

    revolutionized the textile industry : speed++ => quantity / possible to spin finer cloth=> quality
  • Health and Moral of Apprentices Act

    workhouse children (apprentices)
    not more than 11 hours a day
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    Luddites

  • Demonstrations of workers relatively commonplace after 1815

  • End of Napoleonic wars

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    Corn Laws

  • Committee on children in manufactories

    Owen testified (children 3 or 4)
  • Peterloo Massacre

    St Peter's field Manchester
    Mass meeting to call for parliamentary reform and the repeal of the Corn Laws. Authorities sent in the cavalry. 11 people were killed, 400 injured.
  • FACTORY ACT

    outlawed work for children <9 in cotton mills
    + children between 9 and 12, max 12 hours a day
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    Corn laws and state interventionism in the economy, more and more criticized.

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    Swing riots

    1830s against agricultural tools and machines
    Agricultural labourers
  • Parliamentary Committee chaired by M. Sadler

    children, graphic details, horrified
  • FACTORY ACT

    children from 9 to 12 => max 9hrs/day
    youths 12 to 18 => max 12 hrs/day
    From 9 to 11 => 2 hrs a day compulsory education
    Employment <9 prohibited (except in silk factories)
  • New Poor Law

    poverty (able bodied, end of outdoor relief) # indigence (impotent poor, workhouses)
    "less eligibility principle"
  • Francis TROLLOPE - 1rst industrial novel

    Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong / The factory boy
  • Edwin CHADWICK - Report on the Sanitary condition of the Laboring population

    connection between poverty, poor public health and social disorder
  • MINES ACT

    women and children <10 prohibited from working in mines
  • Andover Scandal

    inmates gnawing bones, money stolen
  • FACTORY ACT (10 hours act)

    restricted working hours to 10 a day for women and children in textile factories
  • PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

    local boards of health (compulsory) / cost met by the payment of rates / medical officers of health / over time, definition of public health expanded
  • Prince Albert died of typhoid fever