What was life like working in a factory during the industrial revolution?
it would be like hell on earth, imagine being stuck in a huge dark factory, poisonous fumes everywhere, your handling chemicals and materials and breathing in toxic fumes that will over time kill you slowly and painfully. the machines were incredibly unsafe and unreliable, most factories had accidents on daily basis, from minor things like losing fingers and toes and getting sprayed in the face by some toxic substance, right up to serious accidents that would cause the deaths of one or often more people. you’d be working 16+ hours a day doing hard, hard labour, small children would be running around or sitting under the machines waiting to be called in to get into spaces too small for adults. no lunch breaks. there was no protection for the workers, get sacked or injured and couldn’t work anymore then your thrown on to the street to become a beggar. The life expectancy of working class people in Britain during the Industrial revolution was 35. That meant most people were died before th
