The Industrial Revolution Was An Innovative Period For...

The Industrial Revolution was an innovative period for entrepreneurs and inventors, in which many monumental technologies were introduced. However, many of those of the factory workers suffered from the social and economic conditions that resulted from the revolution in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some social conditions were that working women increasingly took up the workforce in textile factories as a way to earn money, but they also faced abuse from men and the harsh working conditions. Furthermore, manufacturers wanted to increase their profits by ensuring that the maximum amount of work could be done in a day, thus they increased the working shifts. The want to increase profits was an economic condition that factory workers had to†¦show more content†¦Although most females workers were older than 20, a social condition was strongly indicated that child labor was very much existent during the 19th and early 20th centuries as a way to provide for themselves and their fam ilies. E. Patricia Tsurumi also provided the genders and ages in the silk factories, but in Nagano Japan. In Nagano, female workers from ages 15 to 20 took up the majority of the workforce. Despite the varied numbers of female workers, both Coleman and Tsurumi presented information that females were mainly employed in textile factories. On the other hand, Harriet Hanson Robinson provided a closer perspective in a former female factory worker’s experience. Robinson, the female factory worker, wrote about how females in the cotton factory had to endure abusive working conditions and the reduced wages in Lowell. Robinson held a specific opinion upon the working conditions as the greatest hardship in the lives of children and that the reduced wages were unfair social conditions, because she was once a factory girl. A factory girl was considered to be the lowest among the employments of women; as a result, Robison may have endured much of the hardships and cruel treatment in the f actories at a very young age. It was a common social condition among many factory workers that they had to withstand the long hours, such as described in documents 3, 4, and 5. In Okaya, Japan, an average workday was 13 to 14 hours long with