Industrial Revolution

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Child labour

Factory System

Domestic System

Mining Industry

The thread made alot of profit for Richard Arkwright

Many people came to work in RIchard Arkwright's factories

Richard Arkwright invented a machine which could spin good high quality thread very fast

It was started in 1769

Was started by a man called Richard Arkwright

Steam engines were used in the making of bricks, pottery, glass, beer, sugar, soap and iron

Coal was also used to power steam trains.

Alot of coal was needed in britain because there were many people with houses to heat, food to cook and factories also used them to power steam engines

Mine owners were making such a fortune from coal that they started to call it black gold

The children that worked in the factories were called pauper apprentices

Poor families didnt have money to send their children to school so they sent them to factories to work for money

The overseers in the factories were very strict

The domestic system involved everyone in the family. They made different products based on the area they were from.

One of the most popular goods from the domestic system was woolen cloth

Many parents had more children for money

The factories were very unhygienic

The children that worked their got beaten alot

Process

The family could work whatever hours they wanted as long as they met their deadlines

The clothier returns to collect the cloth and pays the family for what they have produced. He then gives them the wool for next weeks order and takes the cloth away to be dyed a different colour

The clothier takes the wool to the villagers who turn it into cloth

A clothier buys the wool from a farmer

Workers in the mine

Trappers

Miners

Bearers

Drawers

Drawers push the loaded wagons towards the lift that takes them to the surface

MIners mine the coal

Trappers open and close trapdoors to let coal wagons pass by

Bearers take the sacks of coal away from the miners and put the lumps of coal into wagons.