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

Reasons for changes to working patterns and conditions

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Overview

Recall questions on the 1833 Factory Act and paid inspectors, the Ten Hours Act, model employers such as Titus Salt, and how conditions had changed by 1928.

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What shift in the location of work took place from the mid-eighteenth century?

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What change in power source occurred in industry from the late eighteenth century?

Who and when

How did the First World War change patterns of adult work?

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    What shift in the location of work took place from the mid-eighteenth century?

    Model answer

    A move from domestic (putting-out) production in the home to concentrated factory employment.

  2. 2

    What change in power source occurred in industry from the late eighteenth century?

    Model answer

    A shift from water power to steam power, freeing factories from riverside sites.

  3. 3

    What new power source spread through workplaces in the early twentieth century?

    Model answer

    Electrical power.

  4. 4

    Who was Titus Salt and what did he build?

    Model answer

    A Bradford textile manufacturer who built the model village of Saltaire, moving his alpaca and worsted workers out of the polluted town into better housing.

  5. 5

    How did the First World War change patterns of adult work?

    Model answer

    Labour shortages drew women into munitions, transport and clerical jobs previously done by men, including as bus and tram conductresses.

  6. 6

    What did the 1833 Factory Act require?

    Model answer

    No children under nine in textile mills, a maximum of nine hours for those aged nine to thirteen and twelve for those under eighteen, two hours' schooling, and four paid inspectors.

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