Chadwick And Sadler's Working Conditions During The Industrial Revolution

Working conditions in the Industrial Revolution were very harsh. It was a time when people wanted mass amounts of production and were not concerned about how things got done as long as they got done. Chadwick and Sadler both took initiative to try to change and protect workers’ rights. As worker’s health became more public, people began to realize how bad they were suffering, the Parliament knew they had to make changes. The Parliament put in many acts and laws that would limit work hours and give workers more rights and better health. The Industrial Revolution created these problems as many companies were focused on production numbers. There were many poor citizens in this time period that would do anything to have a job. Jobs were scarce

Changes needed to be made. Edwin Chadwick and Michael Sadler were the most successful in taking action. Sadler and Chadwick were aware of these working conditions and knew something had to be done to help the workers. They both wrote and focused their attention on spreading the word about how horrible these poor people were being treated. Sadler investigated these worker’s health and found more horrible details about how horrible they were treated. Chadwick was very similar as he became a secretary to a commission investigating sanitary conditions. He then wrote a report on what he had found and brought them to the British Parliament. Chadwick estimated by making these changes it would save millions of people and could increase the average working labor age by 13 years. They both concluded that the conditions that the workers had needed to change and needed to change fast for the benefit of both the workers and the

The Parliament tried to change these conditions through the Factory act of 1833. This act restricted the starting age limit of child workers to have to be at least nine years old to work. It also put restricted hours on child labor. Kids from nine though twelve were only allowed to work eight hours per day. From ages thirteen through seventeen they were allowed to work up to twelve hours per day. Mining conditions were even worse than factory conditions. People were constantly getting diseases and dying from working in mines all day long. To change this, they came up with the Mine Act of 1842. This stopped woman and children from working in the mines. They also put a ten-hour work limit which limited the work day for people who worked in the mine with the Ten Hour act of 1847. This was a big deal for workers who were used to working eighteen hours per day. This slowed down mining but saved many lives in the