Horror in the Cotton Mills (A History of Cruelty in the Industrial Revolution)
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Boys and Girls were forced to work in horrific conditions in cotton mills - dangerous machines, poorly fed and clothed and punished for slow work. By the early 19th Century, pastoral scenes of mill water wheels and animal power were being replaced with 'progress' - steam engines and mechanisation; and here, in the mill towns of northern England and Scotland, the working classes found employment. But it wasn't necessarily a choice - and today you will discover the history of how children were forced to work in horrendous conditions, in the words of John Spargo - a political activist concerned with social inequalities and child slavery. Learn exactly why the system of child labour was evil and shocking, to a point where you might think that use of the word 'satanic' in association with the mills of Blake's poem of 1804 befits the suffering inflicted on the miserable lives of the children, who found themselves toiling in the machine rooms.
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I've noticed a bizarre trend of folks sharing images of these child laborers and applauding them as hard workers, claiming that children today don't know what hard work looks like. How could someone say such a thing, knowing the suffering and lack of agency these children faced? Shouldn't it be a good thing that children today don't know what that kind of work looks like? And the sad truth is, there are many children today who still suffer like this. Thank you for sharing this reality. Let's hope that learning our brutal history can encourage empathy and goodwill towards others in the present day.
Children don't have agency, their parents do until they're semi responsible adults. I agree with everything else you've stated.
It's the argument of "children these days are soft, they don't know real struggle"
Yet people who say that forget that it's a good thing that children these days are soft and don't know real struggle.
It's called societal progress.
Whoa. What absolute freaks! I think people like that don’t have a very good understanding of history. The rise of the middle class led to our current situation, where children are cherished and loved as opposed to being sold off to work in horrific conditions. It’s a good thing. Imagine looking at images of these children, unwashed and hard at work, should actually break peoples hearts, not make them pissed at children today. Like, wtf is wrong with people? Sigh.
Well said I totally agree with you. Like the people who hold up China as an example of hard work and productivity. For some, it still comes at a great cost. ☹
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What happened to these children was tantamount to human trafficking, being sold by guardians
Thank you for drawing attention to their desperate plight
Another great video
Terrible exploitation from workhouses to the mills. Thanks for your comment.
Some of these poor little buggers were my ancestors.
Was life better as a mill apprentice or in the workhouse?
Unfortunately these people were so poor they didn't really have a choice.
It is a sad state to be into I am sure.
Just makes you realise what a blooming cheek black Africans of Got.
I love your videos.
It baffles me that some people think the British people as a whole profited from slavery and Empire. The exploited people in Britain were not slaves brought from Africa but impoverished British children and adult workers forced to endure brutal exploitation or starve to death. Millions of British lived and died neglected on the streets in homeless destitution or were forced into the workhouse. It is beyond irony that a slave in America had at least had some value, albeit only monetary, placed on their life whilst the life of many 'free' British had no value whatsoever. Of thousands of incidents, the Huskar mining disaster of 1838 alone caused the deaths by drowning of 26 children (boys and girls) between the ages of 8 and 16 and yet has been entirely forgotten. It might be fair to argue that the people who suffered the most under the British were, the British.
"Britons never never shall be slaves" (brass band"
Yeah it's not like the British invented the concentration camp, worked Indians to death in mines and building railroads, made a fortune selling slaves and basically drove most of the third world into debt....
History is not just in this country buddy
Yes. Prince Charles should apologise for this the woke block head.
Yes. I wish I could upvote this comment more than once.
Unless you count the Irish who at the time were under British rule and left to starve during the great famine. But yeah, I get what you're saying.
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I don't think I've ever watched a video that shows just how awful a situation those poor children were in. The things we complain about today seem completely trivial in comparison, this video has given me a greater appreciation of just how much better off we are today. Thank you for the upload.
A dark chapter in our history. I’m glad you found watching this documentary worthwhile. Thank you for your comment!
Unfortunately there are still children working in horrible conditions in MANY parts of the world- we in the "better off" regions consume the products they produce, out of sight and out of mind
@@lizardchild2004: Yes indeed! Blacks today still " whine" as if they are historically unique of enslavement. I was born in 1933 in Arizona and was a child laborer gleaning Grapes and picking fruits with my cousins. The documentary describes powerful truths. There are many books that delved into these levels of Hell.... Some that pop into my head is "The Pedogy of the Oppressed" all of Dickens, Steinbeck, Sinclair....
As a kid, I was blind, but now I see things behind the evil veils of the Industrial Revolution .... too, late, too late.... too late.
I am Mexican American born in a copper mining town in 1933. My parents, kin, peers had histories that parallel the evils noted in the documentary.
No wonder, I loved Charles Dickens stories when I first read them in high school.
@@lizardchild2004 At least they are paid today
To be honest they're bringing this back into america right now , and it hasn't really stopped it's just less documented.
Where I grew up in Notts , the graveyards are full of children killed in the cotton mills . Linby & Papplewick in particular . Many died in the local mines too .
Good vlog team ! As ever : )
I can imagine, a lot of mills in that part of the country. Thanks for your comment.
where is Notts??
@@manp1039 Nottingham
My great grandfather was an orphan in South Wales in the 18th century, he was sent down the coal mines aged 9. Even my parents had to leave school aged 13 and go to work.
Nearby to where I lived there was a Dolly-blue Works. In Victorian times they employed a lot of orphans who had to work long hours, 6 days a week, only Sunday off, but they were taken to a nearby church chained together so non could escape.
That must have been such a hard life that it's difficult to imagine what it must have been like. Thank you for sharing.
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I can’t fathom the dark places a human heart must occupy to stomach treating the most vulnerable among us this way.
If you are 85 let's say, and you were born in 1938, and your father was 45 when you were born, thus he was born in 1893, and his father was also 45 when he was born, thus your grandfather was born 1848. Now if his father was 45 when he was born, thus your great grandfather was born 1803. Yet you say he was 9 years old in the 18th century-known as the 1700's. Just how old were all these people when their kids were born?
I live near Bates Mill in Lewiston, Maine, U.S.A. About a century ago, when asked why Canadian-American immigrant's children had a low rate of high school attendance, a local leader said that there was no sense in educating them beyond eighth grade because they would not use that much education in the blanket + shoe mills.
My paternal grandfather and his peers left school aged 10 and went to work (if they could find any) in 1899 London.
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Great video, entertaining and educational as well as thought provoking, as always. Being a black woman in America, I couldn't help but keep thinking, well, there actually were worse jobs in the cotton industry on the early 1800s 😏, but that was pretty bad. I'm sure there were some actual slaves in the US that were less miserable than some of these young people being similarly exploited- just without having been officially designated a "slave." Whenever you are deprived of agency over yourself, in someone else's financially interest, it's basically slavery. So sad, at least slavery is recognized here. It seems like no one knows these poor children ever existed. Thank you for keeping the memory of these babies and the sacrifices they were forced to make alive. They existed and they mattered and the least we can do is acknowledge them and condemn those who exploited them.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Even the workers that were paid for work were poorly remunerated and I wonder how much they were left with after so many fines.
PoutineDream Slavery, of any type, is horrendous. It sickens me to the core that children, even to this very day, were treated so maliciously. No child should EVER be treated like that, or an adult -- for that matter.
My ancestors came from Italy, Germany, Lithuania, and Ireland, and they had been slaves, at some point in time.
I think that many people tend to forget, or were never taught in school, that every single race, in some point in time all over the world, were slaves; people were enslaved after their country had been invaded, or kidnapped and forced into slavery.
I had watched, a few months ago, a documentary regarding children, from India and Africa, as young as 3 being forced into doing extremely dangerous "work" for little pay. Children, from India, are not going to school, because they have to help bring into the house, or hut, some form of financial support; this is what upsets me, in this documentary, it shown that these poor children are being forced to work, instead of going to school, because of the fact that their parents continue having children knowing that they cannot afford the children.
That's unfair to the children. The children suffer the most, in every single case. Children are NOT supposed to grow up fast. Children are supposed to be in school, learning to read, write and do math, play with other children, and just be children.
Just hearing about the conditions those poor children had to endure was truly heartbreaking. It was definitely something that kids today should be absolutely grateful that they don't have to endure what those poor children had no other choice, but to endure it.
Take care, God bless, and have a blessed week.
In the early days of the mills workers were not allowed to leave their machine even for a toilet break - on a 10 hour shift. I can't even imagine how they survived that.
It has to be remembered that when the American South defended slavery as the morally superior economic system, they were comparing it to this, not to our modern world. As late as 1860 the moral preference between one system or the other was not so clear cut. The violent exploitation of vulnerable populations remained rampant across the entire world by the wealthy and powerful.
I heard that when the workers in the cotton Mills heard about the slaves in the cotton fields in America in the 1800s they all downed tools and refused to work, out of sympathy for them! ❤
If we are not careful these historic times may well come round again. The working class must unite and stand strong ✊🏻✊🏿🏴
They never changed.
At the moment I am worried about WEF and their great reset more than anything as the reason of collapsing living standards.
@@ReasonAboveEverything 100% ....people are slowly waking up to Feudalism 2.0 ,fight it where/ how you can.
Thank you for bringing these horrors to people all over the world who never heard of them. Here in the north of England we are taught about this at school as some of these kids were our. ancestors. Many of the smallest kids were used to pick the cotton waste from under the steam powered machines and some of them were caught up in the machinery and literally mangled to death. Is it any wonder that me, my dad, grandad and great grandad embraced Socialism.
I didn’t tell all the stories of death and cruelty in this video, as there are many. But they are, as you say, simply terrible.
@@FactFeast Yes, if you had tried to talk about all the horrors of that period the video would be hours long! But I'm so glad that you have addressed this so professionally I'm kind of shocked that many people in the comments have never heard about this part of British history before. I feel this very personally, almost viscerally as my past is linked to these poor little kids and their families.
My older brother had a good well-payed job and a lovely office on Deansgate in Manchester, until he retired quite recently, and he could look down on the very street our great great grandfather as an 11 year old had walked barefoot to a ten hour shift at his work in Ancoats. No wonder g.g. grandad died( as a young married man and father of 5 )of acute alcohol poisoning Alcohol and opium was the only way to deal with his life of never ending toil and hungry babies.I know it sounds like something from the "Five Yorkshiremen" sketch where old guys try to out do each other with tales of childhood poverty, but it's true and it still means a lot to us in our family.
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Under one form of control or another... pick your poison.
Same here. My family are also descendants of poor working class. The way this is taught in British schools completely diverts blame from the ruling classes and makes it 'something that happened to someone else'. We were never given any notion that it was our ancestors they were talking about. After all that, my grandfathers generation then happily went to France to be slaughtered in the name of the same ruling class. We are more brainwashed than most in the UK.
That sucks if you don't get mangled you get to work like a slave and get White lung from fibres
While in the U.K., I toured the Derwent River Valley mills. The Industrial Revolution started there.
Kids as young as five had worked around dangerous machinery in a polluted and cruel atmosphere.
But those who didn't work at the mills were often exploited, just the same, in the coal mines. Even
worse, young boys were once forced to work in the lead mines by candle-light, in standing water.
There was an orphanage nearby to supply them with steady labor. Their lifespan was very short.
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A lot of English children, particularly in the North, lived hellish lives. Alcoholism was widespread. Children working was a source of revenue.
That tradition continues.
This is heart breaking 💔 to think that this really happened 💔 😢 😔.
To my ancestors amongst tens of thousands of others.
Wait till you learn about the additional 5000 years of written history from every corner of the globe. History has no dark chapters, the entire book of history is dark
WOW!!! Having actual photographs really help it hit home as to the real depravity of the time,great vid 👍
Unimaginable misery in these mills. Glad you enjoyed the presentation!
Bad thing is this still goes on all over the world every day
I was just thinking the same thing. This still happens today in some places. Sad sad 😞
“Little hands and little fingers.” Yikes! 😱 That made my skin crawl.
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Wow, thank you! Sharing videos is a big help to attract a wider audience.
Thank you for reminding us what a "free market" is like for the labor force.
This is why we need unions
@@pinkiesue849 that would be the corrupt unions that were bought off practically when they were conceived - read up on unions (worldwide), they have always been a means of control by the rich ..... pity, but that is the reality
Good news. We don't have a free market in the first place. It's loaded with rules and controls already
My swedish ancestor was a spinnery master at Ahlafors spinneri (close to Gothenburg, Sweden) and he went to England at about in 1900-1920. He saw the laborers, the filth etc and told about this in his diary.
Very interesting comparison between conditions in the UK and Sweden. I'm sure the diary would make interesting reading. Thank you for sharing.
Unimaginable cruelty, depravity and degradation
was the order of the day.
Deprivation and privations
as to what today would be disallowed any animal was the life of most, and it was dependant upon this shameless abusive inhumanity that England's very perverse class system flourished - indeed depended. Of course it's sick success could not be challanged owing to the strongly entrenched acculturation and religiosity.
I had to research a paper in college based upon this underwritten barbarism that made me literally ill.
Slavery is slavery, is slavery.
Must we not forget that these practices still go on today in third world countries.
Thank you for another great vid.
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Excellent overview of an horrific system of child labour & exploitation. To break the calls for better pay & conditions, desperately poor, non-English speaking Irish were unknowingly brought over and kept locked inside these factories (think of more recent times in China) to 'protect them' from hostile English workers. Michael Davitt, whose family originated in County Mayo, started work in a Cotton Mill aged 9 and lost his right arm when it got mangled in the machinery, no compensation. After 7 years in prison for agitation, he went on to lead The Land League in Ireland that eventually won tenancy rights for poor Tenant Farmers. So many stories that could be told about those most miserable times until Trade Unions were finally allowed to operate and win better pay & conditions.
After WWI English navvies were paid 1/6 an hour. The misgovernment lied to the Irish that due to the war there was a shortage of navvies and encouraged them to come over. The pay was then reduced to one shilling and sometimes 6d an hour. Some of the Irish would sleep in the large drains waiting to be installed. Some tried to save some to send it to their families still in Ireland. Others were alcoholics and couldn't stay off the drink and that's where their wages went.
Of course the English navvies were angry, especially as the same Irish men hadn't fought in the war that the English hadn't long returned from, often injured, traumatised, and having not only seen their own killed but also killing themselves up close and face to face with bayonets. Seeing the horror on the faces of their own and the 'enemy' and the features of even young teenagers twist in agony as they died. So if course they were angry. They were angry at the business owners, the misgovernment and the Irish.
If it had been the other way around the Irish would have been angry at the English, the business owners and misgovernment.
Those in control have pulled that same stunt for millenia.
The Windrush generation? I remember my father reading in a '60's news article that those not going home weren't being traced and sent home to Jamaica. They had come on the five year plan, for them to work, receive good enough wages to save and return home to be able to buy their own houses and businesses. Of course they were given the not so good low paid work, even when there were British people willing to do those jobs. I remember a white lady who was a public toilet attendant in Tooting Broadway. She kept it very clean and would check cubicles after anyone came out. If they hadn't flushed she would stop them leaving and have then return and flush their waste away. One day she told me she had lost her job. The council had given her job to a Jamaican woman. Of course, Jamaicans were lied to that our people didn't want and wouldn't do those jobs even though they were doing.
In China, the worst factories are private,
often run by citizens from other places.
The new gov. seems to be addressing
this. 19th c. English owners were same
ethnicity, same nationality, same faction
of same religion. A lot of difference those traits made.
The Irish actually integrated very well into English neighbourhoods and families, in general. The ordinary people supported each other
Davitt was helped by English people
'According to biographer Carla King, the accident helped save Davitt from a lifetime of mill drudgery. When he recovered from his operation, a local philanthropist, John Dean, helped to send him to a Wesleyan school. In August 1861, at the age of 15, he found work in a local post office owned by Henry Cockcroft, who also ran a printing business. He joined the Mechanics' Institute and continued to read and study, attending lectures on various topics'
They spend no money paying the children wages, they don't pay to dress the children, they Feed the Children the same food they feed to their pigs. In the beginning of the video it talks about how many children there were so it just seems to me like they could have afforded to have more children for the sake of allowing the children to at least take naps since they aren't spending any money on them anyway. This is so inhumane it's almost unbelievable. 😢
My Grandma & Great Grandma worked in a cotton mill in Burnley, Lancashire. My Grandma was working there from the age of 14, I remember her telling me that it was very hard work and used to cause her a lot of pain. She was riddled with arthritis.
Thanks for sharing! I’m sure it was a hard life of constant physical work.
Just the other month I checked out the industrial museum in Bradford UK. They have some of this kind of machinery and it is so loud. Check it out if you can.
I know of the museum. Definitely would like to visit.
When I was a child in Manchester old ladies who had worked in cotton mills as girls could still lip read. They learned it to talk to their friends while working in this horrendous noise. The Manchester comedian Les Dawson used to impersonate the way they would use" lip read talk" to refer to sex or grown up stuff in front of kids. As Homer Simpson would say "it was funny because it was true".
Fascinating information here about the lives of mill workers, which I hadn’t heard before. Thank you for sharing!
@@thedativecase9733 I remember seeing him do that skit... hilarious 😂🤣😂
Some slave owners in the South compared mill worker conditions to those of their slaves and claimed their slaves lived better.
There should be a limit on the wealth a single person may have. Once you reach that limit you must retire, so someone else may have their chance. Billionaires hoard all the wealth and don’t even need it or use it. In that way, families remain powerful and wealthy for centuries. Why should they?
It isn't the money as they create as much as they want. Fiat currency. It is about power and real wealth as in land, minerals, businesses and slaves.
It’s not quite how money works
👍👍👍👍👍this is why *regulations* are necessary ... now more than ever ...world wide fair wages & monitoring (a living wage) that we are still fighting for in 2022 along w/ rent & price controls. Horrific abuse/s then & in some places probably still going on; for example, in some of the shoe & clothing factories & diamond mines
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
When we look back and know ourselves to be lucky how we live today. Let us remember THIS IS NOT RACIAL issue, not really cultural issue, but A SIGN OF THE TIMES. Remember if people didn't die directly because of their occupations, they died later because of them. We should LEARN FROM HISTORY, that is it's legacy to us & the future.
Surprised that the overseer didn’t feed the pigs the poor, little bodies of deceased children, instead of burying them at night. Maybe some slave owners did feed the pigs on children.
Wow, how gross! Those bosses sucked!
Noooooooooooo
Tbf I don’t think there would have been much meat on the children as they were starved ! :(
My grandma was an orphan by the age of 8, one of 10 siblings , and working in the cotton mills in West Yorkshire… never once did I hear that woman complain about a hard life, or traumatic life. When I hear people say how privileged my family are because of their skin colour it is terribly frustrating. My family were dirt poor… but due to the hard work and attitude of my grand parents we are all now middle class. Rip May Nalson. The best women that ever lived x
Evil and greed have been going on forever.
Maybe the best of your videos yet, or so i think as i was totally unaware of the children slave labour TRAFFICKERS...
It would be amusing to list the names of the high society rich who made their start amassing ££££££ this way...
This was a terrible life inflicted on children who had no choice or tricked into this miserable existence. Thanks for checking out the video.
@@FactFeast it is also good to display that white skin did not made you immune to the slave markets and life in irons.
The protestant capitalist hypocrisy bare circuitry exposed.
We really have to make a HEAVY effort to EVOLVE by erasing this attitude (s) from our brains TODAY not by say "sorry for the past... soooo sincerely soooorrry about the past " -and never change!
There is a comment by John Bruce from 4 weeks ago which I replied to. The two websites I mentioned (via a less censored search engine) will lead to a number of names.
Most of them weren't trafficked. They came from local rural areas into the the towns and cities. If you want to know who profited, just look up the mills and coal mines owners. Some mill owners did try to do good, but many didn't, and a great many repeatedly opposed labour reforms.
God, what a crazy job it was. Glad I don't live in that period!
Simply a horrific existence.
@@FactFeast indeed! ❤️
My mom and dad picked cotton at 6 years old and that was in the 1950s
I don't care what anyone else thinks, I believe that the victorians were best at creating hell on earth for ordinary people. Victorian values? You can keep them. No decent person would touch them
@Thisis Gettinboring Yes.
Hypocrisy at it's best. The Victorian gentlemen who ruled their households, their women, children and servants, often visited brothels where children were available to do anything they wanted ☹
@@lesleyhalkett5675 Long before the Victorian era, albeit not in mills.
An interesting albeit heartbreaking vid. Got only a little more than halfway through and had to stop watching. It broke my heart and soul.
A dark chapter in history and I appreciate it’s not an easy watch. New and longer theme this week.
How did you tip your hat sir
Thanks FF & Happy Father's Day To All The Dad's❤️
Always a pleasure 🙂
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*Cotton really is the fabric of our lives* 🤬
Ugh 😩
Why can't the descendants of these poor children get Reparations for these abusive treatment they suffered from the families who still benefit from the riches made ,Just like the slavery scandal of Black people this is the same appalling treatment Humans dish out to other Humans.
Exactly
I'm not in their shoes......but to give up my child????
You don’t understand how desperate and poor people were back then...Maybe families knew they couldn’t feed their children and hoped somehow that someone else would!
I know that slavery was an awful thing. However, how come such treatment of these people has been brushed under the carpet of history. I myself am a descendant of a family that the fled Ireland and who then ended up working on the roads, canals and mainly in the factories. Where are my reparations? To be honest I don’t expect, however; I despise the wealthy families who like those who traded in African slaves traded in the poor of Britain. Both types gained their wealth of the poor and vulnerable. Perhaps we should sequester the wealth of these families rather than demand reparations from poor people to be paid to poor people.
We rarely hear of the slavery of our ancestors, it sounds as bad as many other forms of subjugation, plane and simple abuse, it was all ways somewhere else slavery was practiced, this is obviously untrue, it was here .in Great Britain ,
We, white British are brought up to believe we were the winners in the 19th century as we had an Empire. The truth of it is only a small amount of people benefitted. Northern mill workers were in poorer health and had a shorter life expectancy than the slaves who picked the cotton in the US.
At the same period, English business and
gov. in early 1800s, at least, practiced BOTH at the SAME time !!!
This is what Rees Smugg would like to return for the poor. SHOCKING... fat cats never change. It was slavery under another name!
He who has an Oedipus complex for his Nanny!
Good video hut terrible times
It really was! So young, such long hours and so little care or food.
I m north africain, and i read a lot of english fantasy books, and very often i don't realise that the fiction, is not only inspired, but depicts faithfully historical facts. I ve read recently, just this week, two retellings of fairytales which described these Cotton factories child labor and also the workhouses' conditions.. One was '' the ugly step sister'', the other title was ' 'half a soul' '. I knew of child labour of course, but not of the 12 hours' 'improvement' ', nor the workhouses.. The same happened to me with the plague doctors: i once read a fantasy book describing their attires and work and didn' t realise till later that the author did not invent it
Sadly, it's all too true. We have accounts of working in the mills. Thank you for your comment.
Thank you
Thanks for the vid!
Hope it was interesting viewing.
Will we ever rise up and switch places with those who keep us in our place?
How are you doing sir thank you for your cultural documentary channel we appreciate your efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well with new video of your channel as if iam attending new lecture any way the past is really so sad and misery especially for poor people and their children too as always iam gathering key points about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s children worked in industrial revolution for long hours insanitary factories workshops their work was often tedious or degrading their bosses punished them physical abuse them poor kids who were employees at young age they whipped them hitkicked slapped the factories employing children were often very dangerous places leading to injuries and even death cramped with poor ventilation trauma from machinery exposure to heavy metal dust .
There are terrible stories of the injuries inflicted on child workers in the mills, and some lost their lives - from the workhouse to the mills, it was a horrible existence. Thank you for your comment.
There is a difference in teaching children to be hard workers, and treating them like dogs during the industrial revolution.
I want my boys to not be afraid of hard work.
There's no way I'd work then to death on such conditions.
I fear the next industrial revolution may be just as horrible if not worse than the first
Henry Stanley (named (John Rowlands at the time) ran away from a workhouse - Asaph’s Poor Law Union Workhouse, at 17 that he been sold to at the age of 6 which his grandfather sent him to. He shipped to New Orleans as a cabin boy aboard the American packet ship Windermere. Befriended there and unofficially adopted by a mercantile agent named Henry Hope Stanley, he took the man's name as his own.
This is really interesting. Thank you for sharing!
this is scary to listen to
My ancestors left Wensleydale in about 1850 to work in a cotton mill in Skipton, the cause was the collapse of the price of lead (they were lead miners) and the absolute poverty in the dale. Does anyone honestly think rural poverty and endless agricultural labour was better than that offered in the new mills, do you really think my ancestors were callous fools in moving to a cotton mill for work. This portrayal is a travesty of the progress of our industrial revolution that did so much not only to improve the lot of our population but that of peoples across the world.
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If you go to the Craven museum in Wensleydale it explains a lot about what you say. It was all pretty harsh.
this is my ancestry i stil remember back in the 1970s i was 5 and my nana was one of the last cotton mill workers in lancashire i remember going into to meet her after school my god i remember the smell the heaviness and heat of the mill me great grandparents worked in the mills to lancashire born and bred truely awful times
Great video again 👍
Kind of you to say! Glad it was interesting.
Once again I'm crying 😢
A terrible history. Quite astonishing how little value was given to young lives.
Very sad.
They were indentured slaves till legal age if lived to grow up
What is shocking is that my age group of nearing seventy years old, were taught at school and by family elders about a lot of what is on the videos here. It's very clear that fewer and fewer were taught over the decades, and the average man and woman has reached adulthood without being given a clue about how our not so distant forebears were mistreated by a system set up for the outrageously wealthy for themselves. Also how some poor mistreated each other.
I can't finish watching this...😭😭💔💔
It’s so deeply depressing, human history is one of hardship
Just slaves for the Robber Barons,they were better off transported to Australia,do you time and you had a chance of doing ok for yourself...
They weren't better off transported to Australia though. Not then.
It's a wonder any of the children survived!
so the slaves didn't do all of the manual labor, as they claim endlessly now.
Well they did but they were white and often children.
american slavery and british slavery were very different 🙄
Both countries in early and mid 1800s
had both official African slavery and un,
unofficial European slavery at the SAME
time (parts of S America and Caribbean
till late 1800s) !!!
well at least we know where the residential schools got their ideas from.
i grew up in NE PA working for a cocaCola bottling distributor. mills we’re a huge segment of our business
I don't think an adult could do 16 hours a day that's just cruel and unusual.
There was a show we watched in middle school that was all about the textile mills and children labour. Anyone else watched this and remembers the name...? Might have been made some time in the 60s-early 70s.
I saw a documentary, taken from diaries of the workers. If I can remember the name, it is priceless. but, working kids 14 hours a day...it is a wonder they didn't all die.
Australian here my neighbours are related to those Luddites that were transported it's like a bragging right now
Reperationsvare due from all governments to we the descendants of labor to death to the king and his cohorts! Forget never!
Please do Richard Oastler and the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was such a great orator
Us kids today dont know we are alive
I know this is a serious topic, but I can't not laugh. The guy reading this makes every word sound so outlandish is absolutely hilarious.
I knew their lives were bad, but this really puts it in perspective
Great wasn't it you can walk so you can work disgusting
My paternal grandmother was born in 1899. She told me she preferred the five mile walk to school at only 5 years old, and liked school because it meant she didn't have to work in the fields in Selborne, Hampshire. As soon as they could walk they had to do something. Carry vegetables to baskets, whatever, in all weathers because food couldn't be left to rot or wilt. It was the same for her parents and theirs way back.
how about reparations for descendants of indentured servants? seems fair to me.
This is Hell. We live in Hell.
This is absolutely tragic..and I thought my dads stories of working since he was a kid was bad it's nothing like this crap my dads 75 and was everything from a cotton picker to a door to door salesman and eventually a army grunt .. but this was in west Texas..and his family worked the cotton feilds together..but yikes and those poor kids 😢
Gosh darn it although Im subbed I never get your vids recommended it'd so annoying darn RUclips sort it out
This seems to have happened to a lot of viewers. Have you got notifications turned on? Glad you found the video.
It's common to find ones ancestors to have worked in the mills. I think there is another reason why most mills have ben demolished. Not to be reminded of the past.
there is an old Flemish movie where you can see this . the name of the movie is "daens". the child in question is killed by one of the weaving machines.
What was the alternative?
never had much when a was kid only what a could make but thank god a was born in 1950s
This is where unions were truly needed. up until the pursuit of money& power exceeded the value of the effort& businessses closed
Good video
Thanks for checking it out!
Conditions that would make an Alabama cotton planter blush.
That street trolly is doing nothing.they would get there faster by walking
Be great if you could make these into animations
Last part of my research the rise of factories in industrial revolution and children were ideal employees they could be less smaller stature so could attend more minutes tasks in industrial towns fewer people were hanged in years 1817 until 1830s punishment was abolished jail sentences children could whipped once or twice in private prior to their release third of all cotton mills workers were children textiles industry spinning children wounded man of house weaving there are from 25 000 to 35 000 death and one million injuries industrial jobs many of them have been children industrial accidents because unsafe machinery worke over 12 hours mills were noisy and textiles mills increased division labor narrowing number of scope tasks including women children with producing process poor conditions low of wages child labor pollution child labor illegal fair labor standards act of 1938 during Franklin Roosevelt childhood in New England 1698 aged around 7 to 12 worked for 12 hours in factories children crawl under unguarded moving machinery away cotton fluff mend broken threads many injuries some were killed British parliament in 1850s stopped children labor iam so sorry to be little long but reading and writing both are great ways to improve our English language as none native speakers stay safe and blessed good luck to you your dearest ones
I read a little but really it needs punctuation to be clear.
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Although I do know Jerusalem The satanic mills line is more closely related to Sting and We Work the Black Seam Together.
Blake was actually referring to the Albion flour mills in Putney - as a Londoner he probably knew little about the horrors of the cotton mills However the quote is now so welded to the idea of cotton mills.
UK today
Wicked
Nothing is new under the sun ಠ_ʖಠ
Republican in the US are bringing this back. A few Republican states have recently rolled back child labor laws, many of which we’ve had since the 30’s, nowhere more so than Iowa. Look it up if you’re interested, it’s disturbing.