At the end of the Dark age’s came the Industrial age. Where impressive and life changing improvements in such areas as textiles, agriculture, transportation and technology changed the way of life in Britain and developed into our way of life today
Life before the Industrial Revolution for most was farming small public patches of land in the town or villages they resided in. Travel and communication with other villages was limited due to poor transportation ways throughout Britain. Manufacturing of product was done in cottages with small amounts of product being produced. Education was available for a select few, benefiting no one in the working class. It was a troubling time for those who were not high up in society.
Life before the Industrial Revolution for most was farming small public patches of land in the town or villages they resided in. Travel and communication with other villages was limited due to poor transportation ways throughout Britain. Manufacturing of product was done in cottages with small amounts of product being produced. Education was available for a select few, benefiting no one in the working class. It was a troubling time for those who were not high up in society.
The transition from the pre-industrial era, where all items were made by hand in homes then bought by capitalists who sold it in the city markets was an impressive feat. The new way of production was the factory system, the most used manufacturing process used worldwide today. The change from the prior procedure sped up the development and volume of product. Making it easier to sell and trade items within Britain and its governed colonies.
At the time mass production in factories was reliant on factory workers to carry out the demand for product. The workers that worked in these factories were treated with no respect and equality as the other social classes were. They were payed around $2 a day, working 68 hours a week. Allowing the richer to become richer off of cheap labour.
Children from the ages of 3 to grown adults worked in terrible conditions for a measly pay that even still complicated the ability to provide for their families. Many children worked in the coal mines and textile factories because of their size making them able to go into mines and complete dangerous jobs because they were easily replaced.These jobs gave many kids growth problems, lost limbs and lives.
Children from the ages of 3 to grown adults worked in terrible conditions for a measly pay that even still complicated the ability to provide for their families. Many children worked in the coal mines and textile factories because of their size making them able to go into mines and complete dangerous jobs because they were easily replaced.These jobs gave many kids growth problems, lost limbs and lives.
Many of these workers were farmers and their families. They were forced to move into the city to be able to support themselves when the public plots they farmed were bought and turned private by wealthy investors and farmers. This created a heavy population in industrial cities making it hard to find high paying work.
The whole concept of the Industrial Revolution was to gain rights for the factory workers and the equality and respect they deserved as working class individuals in the country of Britain from the mid 1600’s to the 1800’s.
The whole concept of the Industrial Revolution was to gain rights for the factory workers and the equality and respect they deserved as working class individuals in the country of Britain from the mid 1600’s to the 1800’s.
In 1802 the first laws concerning the working class people’s rights were created by the British government concerning labour rules. The first laws, passed in 1802 concerning children and the hours they were now legally allowed to work. By 1824 early forms of present day labor unions were formed protecting the rights of working class citizens. These labour unions protected and improved the health, hours, rights and amenities given to the working class people of Britain.
When the United Nations created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, five rights were influenced by the Industrial revolution. All five having to do with the improvement of life for working class people and everyone else and the equality we all deserve.
When the United Nations created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, five rights were influenced by the Industrial revolution. All five having to do with the improvement of life for working class people and everyone else and the equality we all deserve.
The Human. Rights affected by the revolution include:
Article 23.
Even though great strides were made to improve the life for many people, The industrial revolution did not have a positive effect on the environment. As well as many other things that happen in the world today. Having those events and actions take place all those years ago concerning the rights we have as people today have helped facilitate the world we live in.
Article 23.
- (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
- (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
- (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
- (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
- Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
- (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
- (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
- (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
- (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
- (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
- (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
- (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Even though great strides were made to improve the life for many people, The industrial revolution did not have a positive effect on the environment. As well as many other things that happen in the world today. Having those events and actions take place all those years ago concerning the rights we have as people today have helped facilitate the world we live in.
Bibliography
Text Information :
Cranny, Michael William, 1947 - Crossroads: a meeting of nations
Images: In order from top to bottom.
Child workers - https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~hicks22a/classweb/Childlabor/WebsiteChildlabor/hine-empty_files/hine-empty.jpg
City Side view - http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/the_industrial_town/06.ST.02/img/IM.1063_zl.jpg
Aerial factory view- https://encryptedtbn2.gstatic.com/imagesq=tbn:ANd9GcQWQa5ToZngGfn987c2mZoevHVURWdzB4EYlVWEW2WrsKHOuU4IwQ
Male workers - http://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/ModernWorldHistoryTextbook/IndustrialRevolution/Images/sweeper-and-doffer.jpg
Young female worker - http://www.teacherlink.org/content/social/instructional/industrialrevolution/childmillworker.jpg
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Human Rights Declaration -http://www.humanium.org/en/childrens-rights-history/references-on-child-rights/universal-declaration/
Young Male Workers - http://s3.timetoast.com/public/uploads/photos/1423437/The%20Industrial%20Revolution.jpg?1298837798
Young girl worker - http://jl10ll.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/industrial-revolution.jpg
Slum street - http://blogs.isb.bj.edu.cn/16jinao/files/2013/05/19.-How-the-Poor-lived2.jpg
Group of boy workers - http://questgarden.com/111/40/6/101026140543/images/Child%20Labor.jpg
Text Information :
Cranny, Michael William, 1947 - Crossroads: a meeting of nations
Images: In order from top to bottom.
Child workers - https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~hicks22a/classweb/Childlabor/WebsiteChildlabor/hine-empty_files/hine-empty.jpg
City Side view - http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/the_industrial_town/06.ST.02/img/IM.1063_zl.jpg
Aerial factory view- https://encryptedtbn2.gstatic.com/imagesq=tbn:ANd9GcQWQa5ToZngGfn987c2mZoevHVURWdzB4EYlVWEW2WrsKHOuU4IwQ
Male workers - http://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/ModernWorldHistoryTextbook/IndustrialRevolution/Images/sweeper-and-doffer.jpg
Young female worker - http://www.teacherlink.org/content/social/instructional/industrialrevolution/childmillworker.jpg
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Human Rights Declaration -http://www.humanium.org/en/childrens-rights-history/references-on-child-rights/universal-declaration/
Young Male Workers - http://s3.timetoast.com/public/uploads/photos/1423437/The%20Industrial%20Revolution.jpg?1298837798
Young girl worker - http://jl10ll.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/industrial-revolution.jpg
Slum street - http://blogs.isb.bj.edu.cn/16jinao/files/2013/05/19.-How-the-Poor-lived2.jpg
Group of boy workers - http://questgarden.com/111/40/6/101026140543/images/Child%20Labor.jpg