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Labor Issues
Guide Questions:
1. What are factories like?
2. What kind of labor do the workers do?
3. What kind of life do workers have?
4. What are the working conditions like for factory workers?
5. How are working conditions different for children?
6. How are workers paid?
Working Conditions
http://web.archive.org/web/20020203182609/http://www.hopwood.ac.uk/heritage/local/html/milltown.htm
Physical Effects of Workers
http://web.archive.org/web/20001205153200/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/workers2.html
Child Labor (I)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm
Child Labor (II)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019043751/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/hist8.html
Evidence Given Before the Sadler Committee in 1832 investigating how child workers are treated
http://web.archive.org/web/20011212170058/65.107.211.206/history/workers1.html
A Summary of Child Labor in Victorian England
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019043751/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/hist8.html
Victorian Money
http://www.wilkiecollins.demon.co.uk/coinage/coins.htm
The Life of a Servant
http://web.archive.org/web/20001214224500/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/work/burnett3.html
Victorian Working Women
http://web.archive.org/web/20001017065917/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/work/burnett2.html
Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission in 1842
http://web.archive.org/web/20001209042000/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/ashley.html
Victorian Social History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
The Textile Industry
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Textiles.htm
Evidence Given Before the Sadler Committee (Michael Sadler secured a parliamentary investigation of conditions in the textile factories)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001109204400/http://applebutter.freeservers.com/worker/
Victorian Political History: An Overview
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019052223/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/histov.html
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