AP History January 30th, 2012 DBQ: Factory Conditions DBQ: Factory Conditions During the Industrial Revolution, there were many hardships and unfair treatments of the laborers that worked there. They had women, children, even full-fledged families working, and for a low wage. And at the same time, there were always endangerment to their lives while working there. This was a very strenuous and rough time where families would do anything to get the money they needed. The main issues that prevailed during that time were working conditions, wages and hours, and child labor.
Web.). Boys and girls who worked in these settings were victims of beatings and other harsh forms pain infliction. For example, punishments for being late included being “weighted”. This punishment included a heavy weigh tied to a child’s neck. Then the child was to walk up and down an aisle of the factory to serve as an example to other children of what could happen to them.
The service user spent 10 days in the local hospital but sadly passed away. It was later found that the sling loop fixings were wrongly adjusted and a safety pommel was not used. In this report the support workers were lacking in training and guidance to use the hoist from the company they worked for. One support worker was not focused on the task of the service user being in hoist as she took on another task to get the slippers which meant she wasn't aware of what the service user was doing. If the correct equipment was used and adjusted properly then that would have prevented the fall and death of this service user.
Women and young children often worked at very hard and often dangerous tasks. 20. There was a lot of ignorance, diseases, and drunkenness in the factory town. 21. All of these were the bad sides of the Industrial Revolution.
Also, “their deaths will be linked to malnutrition.” (Second Thought, p.105) While working in Maine, the Maids the housekeeping service did not allow workers to drink or eat anything on the job. Ehrenreich noticed that each day, her colleague only brought a bag of Doritos
Ida leaves the house at an age of seventeen to “spend the next three years as a guerilla soldier for the Tamil Tigers” (Briggs 82). Ida never dies “because of a battlefield wound but because of a [gang-rape in her own living room]”. Ida is not the only girl who went through this but “thousands of other girls in Sir Lanka who are forcibly recruited or who join to protect themselves against economic hardship and rape”. (Briggs 83). Women in Northern Uganda are constantly raped but they are never allowed to do an abortion when they became pregnant.
Janice West Task B Serious failures to protect individuals from abuse Victoria Climbie Victoria Climbie died at the hands of her Aunt and her boyfriend Carl Manning. She had I total 128 separate injuries to her tiny body. Despite being known to the local Social services and being taken to hospital various times, the system that was set up to protect her, let her down. Who should of protected her? Systems where put in place to protect this little girl through legislation but not acted up on.
* Baby P failed by police, social workers and lawyers * Toddler had 60 visits from agencies over 8 months * 'Horrifying death' could have been prevented * Authorities didn't realise violent partner lived there The horrific extent to which Baby P was failed by nearly everyone who came into contact with him was laid bare yesterday. Social workers, doctors and police committed a catalogue of errors which led to the toddler’s death at the hands of his mother and her sadistic boyfriend. The full report into how the toddler died disclosed how Baby Peter’s mother, Tracey Connelly, told the authorities she had a boyfriend – but they did not ask who he was or insist on meeting him. She even named Steven Barker – who later battered Peter
Childhood for a slave child was especially challenging. Childhood was often filled with hard labor, long work hours, and frequent splitting of families. Many children got seriously injured or died from carrying heavy workloads, beatings, or from lack of water/food. Because life was so hard for slave they created kinship networks. They would all act as family to one another.
There is no more disgusting and unwanted stain on British history than the sickening treatment of the poor worker-children during the Industrial Revolution. Entire generations of children lost their childhood as they were sacrificed to the work Mills - suffering and often dying because of the uncaring Government, the greed of mill-owners, the cruelty of factory managers and the parents of these children. We, another century down the line, in a time where children are one of the most important parts of society, find it unbelievable that children as young as four or five would have to work in such terrible conditions. Children were often used for cheap labour. They were easy to keep and didn’t take up much space.