Most people who worked in the factories lived in the factories which had little living space, lack of proper ventilation and lack of proper hygiene (Wikipedia). Due to the poor living conditions and overcrowding people were subject to health issues and death related from communicable diseases. Along with the poor living conditions, hunger and malnutrition were common during this time. Labor laws did not exist. Workers worked long hours without breaks and children were also subjected to these cruel working conditions as they were often put to work alongside their parents.
I would bring textiles to sew into clothing. I would bring grain and flour, the flour mainly to bake bread. For growth, I would have us all build one big building that could house us all, if need be. Then everyone must pitch in to build each family's house together, one after the other. Those who have skills sewing, cooking, cobbler, tool user, will get a building made to practice their trade or skill.
Harsh climate killed crops and some Loyalists too. Food was scarce. They found that they had to trust each other in order to survive. Many didn’t survive the first winter. The Loyalists cooperated with each other by helping build log houses and raising crops.
In 1605-1612, the colonists experienced the longest drought (Doc B). Because of the lack of rain, they weren’t able to grow crops (Doc B). The seasons also caused diseases to spread (Doc E). The occupations of the colonists contributed to the colonist dying. They brought gentlemen, rich men that didn’t work with their hands, and they wanted other people to build their houses and hunt for their food (Doc C).
Bushfield Dig was found in a farmer’s field. The farmer was plowing his lawn when bones and other artifacts started showing up. When archeologist arrived they dug up some more items such as chips, chipped rocks, animal bones and other artifacts. When I tried figuring out what they would do with all of these artifacts and how they cooked food this is what I came up with. Back then there was no such thing as a stove so you would have to cook all of you food over a fire.
Farmageddon Review/Summary The movie Farmageddon is about the problems that small farmers are having nowadays. Less than 2% of farms are small farms. One of the problems of small farmers is that the USDA makes farms have to do so much paper work. Some farmers spend as much time doing paper work as they farm. This is a problem that big corporation farms do not have because they can just hire someone to have that job of filling out the paper work.
People are struggling to survive everyday because they have no food and shelter. These people may always dig through the trash to find something to eat for the day, not knowing if they will find anything. Families may always live in horrible conditions, having no other choice, because they do not have enough money. It’s extremely hard for them to find well paying jobs in these countries. For most of these people it’s nearly impossible to get out of poverty because they were born and raised in that culture, unless other people who aren’t in poverty help them out.
The population was estimated to have dropped 50-60%, so the prices of goods rapidly dropped, since there were so few people still alive to buy it. The lower levels of the social chain, like the peasants, serfs, farmers, and factory workers were struck the hardest. (Pollama) Since their living and work conditions were not very sanitary, and their living spaces were often cramped and dirty, they were the easiest targets for the plague. All of the jobs that these people had were now open, and available for people to take. Since the serf population had gotten ridiculously low, plantation owners were forced to start paying workers to tend the farms.
The weakness of the the crops on the farms in Canada is that not all of their crops lasted all the way through the winter as they would spoil. As well, another weakness was that cattle in Canada (New France) was not able to last during the winter so these habitants had to butcher their farm animals come fall due to not having enough food to feed them. Instead of making them starve to death, they just ended their life fast which helped in providing meat for these farmers. The strength of Canada in considering the types of crops that was on this land is that they produced wheat, vegetables, and live stock. The Canadians worked together in their large families to produce these crops.
But these immigrant children did not get any pay, this was child labor because the under aged immigrant worker was used and did not receive pay. It was more of a two for one deal for the factory owner because small bodies were needed to fit a certain job. “They are doing away with a great deal of mule-spinning there and putting in ring-spinning…for that reason it takes a good deal of small help…they get all the small help they can to run these ring-frames.” (65). These requirements cost many immigrants available work, leaving these immigrant men without pay unable to provide for their families. In an interview Thomas O’Donnell explains “…at Fall River if a man has not got a boy to act as “back-boy” it is very hard for him to get along…in many cases discharging men in that work and put in men who have boys…and that has brought my circumstances down very much…our children are very often sickly of not having sufficient clothes, shoes, food or something” (64, 65).