Hello, we are Judith, Natlia, Laia and me, Naomi, and we want to show you our project about

the Industrial Revolution in Britain. We know that, maybe at first sight sound a little boring, but we have discovered a lot of interesting facts. The Industrial Revolution started in Britain in 1760, and ended in 1840. At first the Industrial Revolution was only in Britain but within a few decades spread to Western Europe and the United States. The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history, and why? Because during this age a lot of things changed: the treatment in men and women, the work, the cities size, the childhood and the technology, between others. The major technological developments, we want to highlight two new inventions: the mechanized cotton spinning powered by steam o water, that machine output a worker by a factor of 1000 the work of one person. It worked faster and better. The other invention is the steam power, the high pressure engine had a high power to weight ratio, making suitable for transport, because before that things were transported by horses, but this invention was a big advance for the growth of the industry. Despite this, the big expansion of the steam power was after the 19 th century. In 1820 almost the half of the population was under 15, the 40%, and most of them were sent to work. One example was Charles Bacon, who worked in a factory at the age of 13. His family sold him to a man for economical reasons. The Industrial Revolution led to a population increase, but the chances of surviving childhood didn't improve. Many children were forced to work. They worked in very bad conditions and were lower pay than their elders. Many children developed lung cancer. Workhouses sell orphans and abandoned children. Politicians and the government tried to limit child labor. About ten years later, the employment of children and women in mining was forbidden. Here you can see 3 pictures: In the first and the second one you can see children and women working in a mine and in the third you can see children working in a mill. In the mills people were forced to worked and lived in very bad conditions. Here are witnesses of children who worked in poor conditions. The first tell us that young children were engaged in digging, when they were news in a factory they put under the machine will it was working. The second witness explains us the difficult conditions they had when they worked in the mill. This man tells us what was happened to the children who were asleep at work. The treatment of children in factories was almost always cruel and inhuman. They worked so many hours that its said that, and I have to read it because its a sentence

said by a British economic historian, Child labour was the crucial ingredient which allowed Britains Industrial Revolution to succeed. This has sense because the factories owners for making money, needed people that worked cheaper and without complaining, the perfect profile: the children. Boys were sometimes dragged naked from their beds and sent to the factories only holding their clothes, to be put on there. They were only children, and sometimes they fell asleep, but this wasnt allowed to them. Frequently they were punished, but not with normal punishments, they were tortured. One of these famous punishments was the weighted, consisted in carry a big rock, that was tied to the body and walking with it for more than 1 hour. This graphic show the proportion of children, under 14 years old, that worked during the Industrial Revolution, in this case a 14%. Women faced different demands during de industrial age to those that face today Those who were lucky or fortunate may have become maids for rich families, or worked educator for rich children, the less fortunate may have been forced to work in hurt conditions. In that time, it was normal for families to have more than ten children, because de half of the children died before arrived at 20 years old. Woman would often have to work right up to and straight after the day of the child birth for financial reasons, leaving the care of the new born child to another person. The life, in that age, was hurt for that people who didn`t have financial means, if for men was hurt for women more. Now we will see a video about industrial revolution.