January 31, 2022
- Canals
- History
- Importance for textile factories
- Leeds/Liverpool canal & Bingley locks
- Great Transformations that changed the way people live and work
- Agriculture
- Factories
- In 1784 Samuel Greg opened the first cotton mill outside Manchester
- This was a revolutionary new form of workplace
- Joshua Freeman: Behemoth-a History of the Factory
- Wool industry opposed British cotton textile manufacturing
- Initially it was difficult to attract workers
- The mills were hot, noisy, and dangerous; the work was tedious; the days were long
- Luddites and Saboteurs
- Anger over lost home textile making opportunities
- Revolt against harsh and dangerous factory working conditions
- Workhouses created to force indigents to perform labor to be fed
- Provided many factory workers–because workhouses were even worse
- Essentially the government compelled people to work in the factories
