Shawn Choi #4 May 24,

2012

Social Studies M2

Industrial Revolution was one of the biggest event happened

at Europe and America. The Industrial Revolution had positive

affects and negative effects. The Industrial Revolution impacted

many people lives, especially the children’s. The children had

poor, they even had three times more accidents happened then

adults at manufacture or factories. There were jobs such as mills,

factories, coal mines and more.

Dennis McKee, 15 years old boy working on a coal mine was

smothered to death. Also Arthur Allbecker, same age as Dennis

McKee burned and injured both of his legs. The reason was that

there weren’t any safety hazards such as safety ropes at the

mine. They were too close to the chutes fell in and a fellow

workman had to pull them out of the chutes. In the mine, they

were a job called breaker boys. It was a job to make sure the

doors of each station were shut closed and if accident or

emergency happens they will alert fellow employs to get out.

In the Industrial Revolution, they had many bad and

extremely dangerous working conditions. Like the coal mine,

where there chutes without having strong metal bars or at least

ropes to hold the body if an accident happens. On the textile

factories, many young children from age of 7 works. The machine

works fast and there wasn’t any safety tools. The machine has

many dangerous parts, especially the belt. The belt powers the

machine, and it spins really fast. The children is exposed to the

belt that spins fast enough that their clothing, hair especially girls,

and arms even feet could be sucked in and get hurt. Even worst

for the children that work is the owners don’t stop the machine.

The owners try to get money, and he/she will never stop the

machine, because of that minute accident.

Many workers have been to extremely bad requires they

must to. Like the working hours and payment they got. As Bertie

May Berry, she was thirteen years old at Georgia. Get up at 6

o’clock at morning and stopped at 6 o’clock. In winter, she went to

6:30, and at summer, she needed to wake up at 5 o’clock. She

had half hour for lunch. She gets $4.25, but if she eats lunch at

the mill, she would get less such as $3.00. On a typical textile mill

family, they would work 14 hours a day, six days a week, there

was only Christmas, Easter and half day for Independence Day.

Average adult male would make $6 dollars a week, where

children under 10 would get 50 cents.

Every works or action they take, there always a negative

reaction. The Industrial Revolution had great impaction to make

more money, and growing the economy. Children for example,

their weekly wages and the working condition were extremely

horrible. Children got three times more industrial accidents then

adults. Children got fewer opportunities to get fresh air if they

worked on a mill or a factory. One of the children required was

education, but they didn’t. The parents will send them as young

as 7 years old to factory. These were what happened to children

lives at Industrial Revolution.