Industrial Revolution, Focus on Women and Children

[bryncomeaux]

the weomen and children were sent to the mines the looms and the pig houses. They were Basically slaves treated with all the dignity and humanity of a draft animal- which was probably treated much better . It was in this period that the iris and other ethnicities became know as being alcoholic by the way! Not unsimilar to native americans who are alcoholics after being conqured and seperated from the land. But of cource were all much better off today Right?

[bryncomeaux]

then these slave harvested materials were turned my the machine ( a kind of mechanical super slave) into products sold so cheap that no one would but our home produced goods either domestically or overseas. Our leaders basically gutted the entire economy for the sake of the nuevo rich global traders/slavers.

The men were sent off to war, unemployment, prison, colonies or the mines. Our land was bouight out from underus at carpetbagger prices due to conditions they created ( sound familiar)

[bryncomeaux]

ok let me get this straight, we used to own our homes, be self employed and grow organic food use wells and firewood. had no bills or employers. We made things we needed and exchanged them with things we didnt or couldn't make. Then powerfull people who were alredy involved in global power and global trade including colonialism and slavery came out with this really wonderful improvement of being able to get unlimited raw rescources delivered by slaves to the homeland

[HBSchool]

This is perhaps the most disingenuous lesson given in schools today. School books, erring on the side of simplicity, fail to frame this period in a proper context, and as a consequence students are left with the impression that long hours, unsafe working conditions, low pay, and unsanitary living conditions were something new to children; that this was was all brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

[HBSchool]

Remember, the United States had been an agrarian (farming) society since it's founding. Think, for second, about all those who had been raised on these farms. What can be said of the children working in factories that couldn't be said of those being raised on a farm?

Farm Children (since the founding of this country had):

-Worked everyday, from sun up to sun down, except on sundays (most families observed sabbath).

-Worked for no pay.

-Worked with/around dangerous 'machinery' (Animals)

[Microglia1]

@HBSchool Exactly, children were used as soldiers in many parts of the world. Being "workers" in an idustrialising economy is not "fun" but it certainly uplifted many out of poverty. A similar process is repeated in China, India, and Brazil as we speak.

[alucarol0213]

cool