Cottage+Industries+and+Factory+Production

Nolan Johnson

Prompt: Between 1750 and 1850, more and more Western Europeans were employed in cottage industry and factory production. Analyze how these two types of employment affected employer-employee tensions, family relations, working conditions, and the standard of living during this period.

Paragraph 1: Cottage Industry Paragraph 2: Factory Production


 * 1) Industrial Revolution
 * 2) High tariffs
 * 3) joint-stock investment bank
 * 4) population explosion
 * 5) decline in death rates
 * 6) cities became more densely populated
 * 7) The Great Hunger in Ireland
 * 8) homes densely packed
 * 9) British Factory Acts of 1833
 * 10) deaths outnumbered births in most large cities
 * 11) City Streets were used as sewers and open drains
 * 12) Poor Law Commisioners in Britain
 * 13) Chadwick's Reforms for poverty
 * 14) Long Work Hours
 * 15) Low wages
 * 16) No empplyment security
 * 17) Child Labor exploited
 * 18) Harsh working conditions
 * 19) Pauper Apprentices
 * 20) Fluctuated Wages

Thesis: In Western Europe between 1750 and 1850s the increased employment in the cottage industry and factory production increased the employer-employee tensions because of working conditions, damaged family relations because people could not afford many kids, and made the standard of living very poor and unsanitary.