Do Now • On Page 41 answer the following:

What is the worst working condition you have ever faced?• What was the job?• Who or what made it bad?• Was it worth it?• Announcement: If you did not take the quiz, you have

until this Friday 10/29 to take it. Come Tuesday to my office hours or Friday after school. Or arrange a day before school to take it. You will need about 30 minutes.

Industrial Revolution

What impact did the Industrial Revolution have on Society?

Popcorn Reading- 15 mins

• Living conditions

• Working conditions

• Class Divisions

Gallery Walk

• Move around the room, stopping at each placard.

• On the construction paper, write one comment or question on each placard.

• Only constructive comments, please!

• Once you return to your seat, answer questions on board.

What did you learn?

Write down on page 41• One image or quote you found the most

striking and why.• Two examples of work and society during the

Industrial Revolution.• Three ideas to improve these conditions

I have had frequent opportunities of seeing people coming out from the factories and occasionally attending as patients. Last summer I visited three cotton factories with Dr. Clough of Preston and Mr. Barker of Manchester and we could not remain ten minutes in the factory without gasping for breath. How it is possible for those who are doomed to remain there twelve or fifteen hours to endure it? If we take into account the heated temperature of the air, and the contamination of the air, it is a matter of astonishment to my mind, how the work people can bear the confinement for so great a length of time.

Dr. Ward from Manchester was interviewed about the health of textile workers on 25th March, 1919.

A cholera victim was first stricken with violent sickness and loss of fluid. This caused intense dehydration (loss of body fluids). Over 50% of the people who contracted the disease died, often within 24 hours of showing signs of the first

symptoms. In the early part of the 19th century the method of transmission of cholera was not known. Many people thought that it was caused by ‘miasmata’ or poisonous, foul-smelling air. It was only in 1849, when an epidemic killed over 70000

people, that Dr. John Snow discovered that the cholera bacteria were contracted from polluted water.

About a week after I became a mill boy, I was seized with a strong, heavy sickness, that few escape on first becoming factory workers. The cause of the sickness, which is known by the name of "mill fever", is the contaminated atmosphere produced by so many breathing in a confined space, together with the heat and exhalations of grease and oil and the gas needed to light the establishment.

Frank Forrest, Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy

(1850)

One great cause of ill health to the operatives in factories is

the dust and lime which is continually flying about. Animal skins are soaked in a strong solution of lime. The lime gets intermixed with the wool and hair. It is put through the teaser in order to shake out the lime and dust. The machine, and all around, are covered with the lime and dust. The result is difficulty of breathing, asthma, etc.

William Dodd, A Narrative of William Dodd,: A Factory

Cripple (1841)