Conditions
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Factory Conditions and Reforms
Working today is usually quite safe. The government has made laws saying that employers have to look after the workforce and provide safety equipment and other things for them. At the start of the Industrial Revolution none of these laws existed and so working in a factory could prove to be very dangerous. Dickens himself has had experiences of working in horrid conditions. When he was 12 years old, his parents removed him from school and he was forced to work in a factory, and this had great influence on his attitude towards child labour and abandoned children, which he shows through sissy.
The Conditions: -
Factory conditions were most often cramped, noisy, dirty and frequently dangerous. Most industries involved long hours of labour, which the workers had to endure. Machinery was not always fenced off and workers would be exposed to the moving parts of the machines whilst they worked. Children were often employed to move between these dangerous machines, as they were small enough to fit between tightly packed machinery. This led to them being placed in a great deal of danger and mortality rates were quite high in factories...