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Workers' Life - Coggle Diagram
Workers' Life
Living Conditions
• Mushroom towns lacked
• Clean water
• Sanitation
• Street-cleaning
• Open spaces
• Overcrowded houses in endless rows
• Air and water polluted
Child Labour
• Families needed extra income
→ children worked
1 Cheaper (paid only 10-20% of adult wages)
2 Easier to control (more obedient)
→ physical abuse common
3 Smail size → useful for machene
Working Conditions
• Low wages (barely enough for rent & food)
• Long hours (65-70 per week)
• Hardship, exhaustion, monotony
• Overseers controlled workers, punished lateness
Industrial Geography
• Heavy investment in technology
• Energy from coal
• Industries concentrated near coal fields (Midlands & North)
• Growth of mushroom towns (quickly built worker towns)