Write about the working condition of …

Ch 5 Nomadic empire

The industrial revolution was a time of important changes in the way that children and women worked. Children of the rural poor had always worked at home or in the farm at jobs.The earning of women and children were necessary to supplement men's meagre wages. They were employed in large numbers in the cotton textile industry.Machinery like the cotton spinning Jenny was designed to be used by the child workers with their small build and nimble fingers. The long hours of work including cleaning the machine on Sunday allowed them little fresh and exercise.Coal mines were also dangerous places to work.Younger children worked as trappers who opened and shut doors sa the coal wagons travelled through mines.The evidence from British factory records reveals that about half of the factory workers had started work when they were less than 10 years old and 28 percent when they are under 14. The children they lost at birth or in early childhood and the squalid urban slums that industrial work compelled them to live in.