Working Conditions in Bradford 19th Century

Worksheet Living and workings conditions in 19th century Bradford. This goldbrick piece of writing will be describing and explaining why and how the living and working conditions were so appalling in 19th century Bradford. A quote from the poet George Weerth in 1842 gives a graphic idea of what sprightliness was like in Bradford 19th century. He gives quite a detailed verse verbalism in one part that you think you have been lodged with the devil corporate (Bradford health-General, no date) this gives the impression that he would rather be residing or is the identical as hell because of the immense disease and vile stench.He compares Bradford to Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester. The reason for these awful conditions was the adaptation of industrialisation and urbanisation. Industrialisation was when flock moved to the cities, and machines produced things instead of by hand. When application started to adapt, Bradford started to become worse, in 1800 Bradford had 1 spinning mil l 50 years later it had 129 mills. This huge produce in industry and universe of discourse had some catastrophic do on Bradford.In 1769 the pee supplyframe was invented, it was powered by water but, it was not a very good machine as with water there are floods, droughts, and foul smells from rivers. One of the main problems came when the use of steamer came into force, as coal mills sprang up extremely fast, this transformed tender-hearted relationships (capitalism). Many of the factories were dominated by women and children, as women were easily controlled and received slight than a quarter of the wages that males received. In 1830 in John woodland spinning mill (which was the biggest spinning mill in Bradford) had 528 workers, 489 were women and 38 men.As the industry expanded, even much the openings of wool houses and dye houses came, later then came more shops and houses, they were built anywhere and everywhere. These houses were one up and one down, had no kitchen, no w ater and no toilet. People bought water privately in barrel little did they know that this water could have come from anywhere. At this diaphragm there was no sewerage and the dye from the dye houses flooded the townsfolk and rivers. It is utter that people could set fire to Bradford canal and the water from Bradford could fleck silver watch cases black.While the women and children dominated the industry, illness and sickness rates uncertain through the roof, while there was no sewerage and the population was unmanageable the average age of death was 18 years old, over lambert percent of children never reached the age of five, and the majority never reached the age of one. In one district alone over five hundred people shared one toilet. In 1850 Bradford won prizes for being the biggest area for textiles, fetching over places such(prenominal) as, Manchester and Leeds.At this point in time Bradford was at its polish off ,in 1850 the graveyard was full of bodies, houses were too crowded and people kept pigs, chickens and valet excrement outside their doors until farmers came and took it away (at the right cost). In the 1841-1851 census it was record that up to 20 people were living in one house. unaware of the dangers of no sewerage, people thought there was no harm in this way of living, as everyone believed these diseases were miasmic diseases and the diseases were caught by overcrowded areas.They believed that decomposing animal and vegetable substances (Thompson, 1982, pp137-138) caused diseases such as smallpox, typhus, cholera and other horrific, frightful diseases. The Bradford Registration District said about twenty percent of all mortality was attributable to malodourous Diseases (Thompson, 1982, pp137-138) so a cleanup of the environment was needed to improve life expectancy. As a conclusion to this piece of writing, it is proven that although the mass growth in industry made Bradford into the biggest textile production area, it also caused prodigious social tragedy in Bradford.The main reason for the adaptation in Bradford was for immediate profit but unfortunately in caused disastrous effects on society.Bibliography Thompson, B (1982) macrocosm Provision and Private Neglect Public Health in Wright, DG jowitt, JA (eds. ) Victorian Bradford. Bradford City of Bradford Metropolitan Council, pp 137-138. Bradford Health- ecumenical (no date). Available at http//wwwschoolhistory. org. ukgcse/medicine/publichealth/bradford (Accessed 24 September 2009)