Changing labour laws

History

When farming methods became much more efficient in the 1700s.

When the British economy grew really quickly and the population boomed.

When the people of Paris rebelled against their king in 1789.

When William of Orange replaced James II as king in 1688-89.

What 'class' were most people in nineteenth-century Britain?

Which Act banned children younger than nine from working in factories.

Because it reduced their income and made them even poorer.

Because many couldn't read the Factory Act.

Because they hated their children and it kept them in the house.

Because they thought that work made their young children healthy and strong.

Why was the Factory Act (1833) unpopular with many poor families?

What workers thought and said about their conditions

Alongside Acts passed by the government, what else do historians look at to understand how working conditions changed during the nineteenth century?

Which of these is not a job that young children did in 1800?

What percentage of people in England lived in towns and cities in 1700?

What percentage of people in England lived in towns and cities in 1870?

He didn't realise that the Industrial Revolution was taking place.

He hated the suffering that city life caused.

He thought that it was all part of God's plan for humanity.

What did William Blake think about the Industrial Revolution?