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