Factory System

Inventions

1.) Complete the chart below

2.) How did one invention lead to another?

One invention led to another because people found new ways to make things happen faster and better.

3.) Why were factories called sweatshops?

Factories were called sweatshops because of the hot and sweaty enviorment maintained within, and because the labor was sweated out of the workers.

4.) Why were factories kept warm and humid?

Factories were kept warm and humid because it was to prevent the cotton threads from breaking.

5.) What illnesses resulted from factory work?

Illnesses that resulted from factory work was lung cancers, eye inflammations, tuberculosis, deafness and mouth cancers.

6.) Why was there a substantial incidence of disability, disfigurement? and death in factories?

There was a substancial incidence because of the unsafty measurements of the machines. It was easy to get limbs caught in a machine.

7.) Why were children desired as employees?

Children were desired as employees because they were cheaper to employ and they were small.

8.) What tasks did children perform in factories?

Children swept under machines and changed the bobbins of thread when empty.

9.) What was the impact of long term factory employment on children?

Children were often permanently disfigured or disabled from factory work.

10.) How had time and the work day changed?

Everything is now governed by the clock and not by the rhythms of life. Before work was 12-14 hours six days a week.

11.) What was the impact of factory work on the worker?

Work in the factory was boring and repetitive, leading the worker to feel like a machine.