Langes 19. Jahrhundert | Industrielle Revolution
Quarry Bank Mill – Working in a Textile Factory
At times, about 2,000 people work in Samuel Greg’s Quarry Bank Mill factory, more than half of them children, often from the age of 6. They are cheap labour, easy to train and discipline. The children’s work is exhausting and dangerous: they have to clean the floor or reattach torn threads while the machines are running. Monotonous work, excessive working hours – which generates little criticism. The factory owners see themselves as benefactors in taking poor children off the streets and offering them the opportunity to feed themselves. Samuel Greg has a house built especially for his factory children. More than other factory owner, he cares for his child workers, teaching them to read and write.
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