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Industrialisation and Social Change in Britain, 1759–1928: Forging a New Society

Dealing with the labour problem

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Recall questions on why rural mills struggled for labour, how the Poor Law supplied pauper apprentices, the terms of apprenticeship, and the village of Styal.

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Key term

How were connections with the Poor Law important to Greg?

Key term

What was the labour problem facing early rural mills?

Who and when

How did the Poor Law supply mill labour?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    How were connections with the Poor Law important to Greg?

    Model answer

    Parishes were glad to send their pauper children to him, supplying cheap, bound labour and reducing local poor relief costs.

  2. 2

    What was the labour problem facing early rural mills?

    Model answer

    Water power required remote sites where there was no existing industrial workforce, so owners had to import and retain labour.

  3. 3

    How did the Poor Law supply mill labour?

    Model answer

    Parishes, especially in London, were glad to apprentice pauper children to distant mills, which removed them from the rates and gave the mill cheap bound labour.

  4. 4

    What were the terms of pauper apprenticeship?

    Model answer

    Children were bound until eighteen or twenty-one, receiving food, clothing and lodging but no wages, and could not leave.

  5. 5

    How did the 1802 Act affect apprentice labour?

    Model answer

    It limited apprentices to twelve hours a day, required instruction and separate sleeping quarters, but relied on unpaid magistrate visitors and was weakly enforced.

  6. 6

    Why did mills move away from apprentice labour?

    Model answer

    Steam power allowed mills to be built in towns where free family labour was available, and public criticism made pauper apprenticeship increasingly unacceptable.

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