strutts mill punishable offences1
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Strutts Mill of England was one of the first factories in the world. Many workers were women, children. How did they treat their workers? What was punishable?TRANSCRIPT
Strutt’s Mill record of offences
These offences were committed by workers at Strutt’s Mill between 1805 and 1813. The workers who committed the offences had fines taken from their wages.
Move the offences into the corresponding box depending on the different categories of work and life that the fines applied to.
Category: Theft of mill property
Being off drinkingOff at Derby Races without leaveStealing nails
Category: Damage to mill propertyIdleness at looking throu’ windowsCalling through some window to some soldiersMaking T Ride’s nose bleed on the hanks
Category: Failure to do work as required
Putting good cotton in the dustMaking noises in Counting HouseFor putting Josh Haynes’ dog in a bucket of Hot waterRubbing their faces with blood and going about the town to frighten people
Category: Failure to comply with mill discipline
Counting hanks wrongNot washing twice a weekTerrifying S Pearson with her ugly faceLeaving her machine dirty
Category: Behaviour outside working hours
Stealing packthreadBreaking a Drawing FrameBreaking a pair of scalesStealing yarn the property of Messrs’ Strutts’Stopping four frames at once
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