Working conditions in the Victorian age

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I would like to offer a comment on Ernest W Adams' answer. As he doesn't allow comments, I have to write my own answer. I agree with what he's written but it only gives part of the story. Queen Victoria reigned for a very long time, during a perio.

Raising the age at which children started work was an important step forward for child welfare, but it did little to improve the working conditions of the many children that remained at work. Children in the workplace still remained largely unprotected from the mistreatment at the hands of employers and co-workers.

THE VICTORIAN AGE. Historical background. England was moving steadily in the direction of becoming Europe´s most stable and prosperous country. The industrial revolution, the railway age, steam engines were being used in mines, factories and ships. Small towns were beginning to swell into smoky centres of mnaufacturing industry.

Victorian era, the period between about andcorresponding roughly to the period of Queen Victoria’s reign (–) and characterized by a class-based society, a growing number of people able to vote, a growing state and economy, and Britain’s status as the most powerful empire in the world.

Liza Picard examines the social and economic lives of the Victorian working classes and the poor. The Victorians liked to have their social classes clearly defined. The working class was divided into three layers, the lowest being 'working men' or labourers, then the ‘intelligent artisan’, and above him the ‘educated working man’.

In one word: awful. You have to imagine that before the first Education Act made by Queen Victoria, workers worked from 6 hours up to 17 hours per day. Each day except Sundays. This was worth for women, men and children, yes, children that didn't.

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The status of women in the Victorian era was often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions.

During the era symbolized by the reign of British monarch Queen Victoria, women did not have the right to vote, sue, or own ed by: Edwardian era. 50+ videos Play all Mix - Victorian Child Labour - Dickens Show YouTube The Viçtοrians - Ηοme Sweet Ηοme - Documentary - Duration: EmY Saidviews.

Working conditions for children of the Victorian age were dreadful. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) or anything faintly resembling an organization for safe working conditions did not Factory Act was established in disallowing children under the age of nine to work in factories.

One of the first labor laws passed was the Factory Act of passed in Britain. It made it illegal to employ children under 9 years old. It was seldom enforced, however. As workers organized, they began to go on strike (not work) in order to demand better working conditions and hours.

Some early laws actually made it illegal for workers to. The Victorian age took its name from Queen Victoria. The Victorian era was the age of progress, stability and great social reforms but in the same time was characterised by poverty, injustice and social unrest (tensioni sociali).

VICTORIAN VALUES. The Victorians were great moralisers. They promoted a code of values based on personal duty, hard work, respectability and charity. Victorian Women and Their Working Roles A Thesis in English by Kara L. Barrett Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts May Approved by: Karen Sands- O’Connor, Ph.D.

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Railey, Ph.D. • Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker by AN Wilson is published by John Murray (£25). To order a copy for £ go to or call Free UK p&p over £10, online. Education in Victorian England remained mostly for children from upper-class backgrounds.

Most children did not attend school and went out to work and earn money for their families. However, as time passed, the people of the Victorian age were beginning to see the value in teaching their children to read and write. When asked to picture a scene of horrifying working conditions during the Victorian era, most people conjure up the image of a 19 th century factory.

Yet the life of a housemaid was, at that time. "Victorian Women and Menstruation" Elaine and English Showalter "Marriage, Redundancy or Sin: The Painter's View of Women in the First Twenty-Five Years of Victoria's Reign" Helene E.

Roberts "A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease" E.M. Sigsworth and T.J. Wyke "Working Class Women in Britain, " Peter N. Stearns/5(7). That is one of many surprising insights that can be found in Judith Flanders’ fascinating book, Inside the Victorian Home: factories helped improve working conditions, especially for women.

Children worked long hours and sometimes had to carry out some dangerous jobs working in factories. "I start work promptly at in the morning and work all day till at ’s 16 hours. We are not allowed to talk, sit or look out of the window whilst we work.

How to Be a Victorian is truly a dawn to dusk guide to life during the reign of Queen Victoria. This is a very well researched book with a lot of detail. The chapters take you from waking in the morning, hygiene, clothing and fashion, work, leisure, Cited by: 1. The Victorian Period revolves around the political career of Queen was crowned in and died in (which put a definite end to her political career).

A great deal of change took place during this period--brought about because of the Industrial Revolution; so it's not surprising that the literature of the period is often concerned with social : Esther Lombardi.The Victorian Workhouse was an institution that was intended to provide work and shelter for poverty stricken people who had no means to support themselves.

With the advent of the Poor Law system, Victorian workhouses, designed to deal with the issue of pauperism, in fact became prison systems detaining the most vulnerable in society. If is commonly held that working conditions in 19th century cities were much worse than those who lived and worked in the countryside at the time or earlier; similarly you will regularly hear that the creation of factories split up families because the father had to go to work for so many hours every day whereas previously they had seen much more of him.