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Title: Mikila Williams
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Mikila Williams
- Period 4
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Prompt
- Between 1750 and 1850 more and more Western
Europeans were employed in cottage industry and
in factory production. Analyze how these 2 types
of employment affected employer-employee
relations, working conditions, family relations,
and the standard of living during this period.
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Cottage Industry
- An industry in which employees work in their own
homes, often using their own equipment
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Factory Production
- The growing demand for textiles led to the
creation of the world's first factories
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Employer-Employee Relations
- Cottage Industry
- The employer brought materials to the employees
home - Employers sometimes accused employees of stealing
materials from them because the employees didnt
make as much cloth as was expected - - Employees claimed the employer didnt give
them enough materials
- Factory Production
- Employees worked in the factory instead of at
their homes - Cottage industry workers didnt want to work in
factories because they had to work at the pace of
the machine - Children were forced to work long hours in
factories because of the reluctance of the
cottage workers
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Working Conditions
- Cottage Industry
- Workers set their own pace
- Worked long and hard, but took breaks whenever
they felt like it - The weeks work was due to the employer by
Saturday - Didnt do work from Saturday night until Tuesday
- Factory Production
- Workers had to keep pace with the machine
- Had to go to work everyday, and work long hours
- Children were forced to work, and were badly
treated overworked - Later, family units worked in mills
- - Children worked under their mother or father
- - This meant the entire family worked 12-hour
shifts
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Family Relations
- Cottage Industry
- Worked in family units
- Every family member had something to do to help
- Women spun the cotton
- Men wove cotton after their wife spun it
- Factory Production
- At first, children were the main workers
- Eventually, adults came to work in the factories
- When the working people took the factory jobs,
they brought with them old working traditions
from the cottage industry - - Came in family units
- - Children worked under their
- parents while in the cotton mills
- - Children sorted coal and worked
- ventilation equipment when out
- in the mines
- - Mothers hauled coal in tunnels
- under the surface, while fathers
- hewed with a shovel at the face of
- the ridge
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Standard of Living
- Cottage Industry
- Worked when they wanted, as long as their work
was done by Saturday - Brought in money, and were able to spend it on
food items and clothing
- Factory Production
- Worked 12-hour days, 6 days a week
- Except during wartime, workers ate more food with
a higher nutritional value - Their diet became more varied
- -Ate more potatoes, dairy products,
- fruits, and vegetables
- Clothing improved
- Housing for working people did NOT improve
