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Do these sources, and the site at Quarry Bank Mill, fully explain what working conditions were like for children in textile Mills, such as the one at Quarry Bank Mill, the sources and knowledge from your studies.
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Do these sources, and the site at Quarry Bank Mill, fully explain what working conditions were like for children in textile Mills, such as the one at Quarry Bank Mill, the sources and knowledge from your studies. In this piece of coursework we are asked to compare the sources provided and make reasonable judgement about the reliability of the evidence in order to explain the working conditions for factory children in the 18th & 19th century. Children had always worked for their parents in the domestic system. By the 1820's & 1830's the controversy over "working conditions" had become a bitter debate involving MPs, newspapers, campaign groups and government inquiries. Employers would argue that the pauper apprentices system was offering a valuable service to the parishes. In the days of waterpower, Mills had to be placed in rural areas, where the mill would be isolated. From the mill owners' point of view there was...
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