The belief that factory owners had a responsibility to care for their workers like parents care for their children.
What is paternalism?
A person who funds, manages, organizes, and takes on the risk of a business.
What is an Entrepreneur or a Capitalist?
Steam-powered locomotives carried goods and people much faster, further, and cheaper across this innovative method of transportation.
What is a railroad?
Young children worked in this job which required they make hundreds of finished ___ an hour while working around a large furnace.
What are nails/nailers?
A man-made water way that is used for transporting goods and people.
What is a canal?
This job was dark, dangerous, and had many hazards. Workers tunneled into the earth to seek a flammable material that powered the industrial revolution.
To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands.
What is a strike?
Who are Samuel and Hannah Greg?
What is the apprentice system?
These workers maintained and operated complex spinning machines to create thread and fabric that would be made into clothing.
What is a mill worker? Textile worker?
This refers to a system of production before the factory system when people made products at home and in small workshops.
What is a cottage industry?
This man is credited with inventing the water frame, which allowed for much more efficient textile production using water- powered spinning machines.
Who is Richard Arkwright?
An economic system in which the means of production (all land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses) would be owned by the people. All goods and services would be shared equally.
What is Communism?
These people were wealthier than the factory workers and were in charge of running the operations of the factory, but they weren't quite as wealthy as the owners.
What is a factory manager?
The typical work week for a factory worker was...
6 days a week/12 hour days
This man is credited with improving the steam engine, which was powered by steam from water heated by burning coal.
Who is James Watt?
What is the Enclosure Acts?
These people wrote and gave speeches on challenges faced by workers and helped them to organize into unions and advocate for their rights by bargaining with their employers.
What is a labor rights activist?