Week 3 – Day 2

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Section 1:

  The bases of economics are supply and demand. Supply is the products that we produce. Demand is how much people want something. Economics is base on the how much people need something. The workers came from businesses needed employees. Mills were usually located in remote places. Young children are working in the factories. Back then they were experimenting on this things people won’t learn without experimenting. The Domestic System usually employed them for home factories. Domestic System: everybody have side job working or making things for people. During the domestic system, people brought in apprentices and study what they are great at from them. At first they work for free then if they got master it the teacher will give the company to them.  

  There were know laws, children were abuse.

Section 2: Sherin, Jason and Bryan teaching class.

(Karen Teaching)

  Britain was the first country in the world to have a lots of factories. Factory machines made all kinds of things. Machines did jobs, such as spinning, previously been done by families at home. Cotton mills were factories where cotton was spun into thread. Weaving machines turned the thread into textiles, such as cloth and carpets. In Victorian Britain, the cotton and wool industries employed thousand of workers. Factory owners employed children because they were cheap, did not complain and had nimble fingers, and could crawl under machines. The small girls work in mills as the piercer. That time children was abused they were not respected. 1841 Mines act - No child under the age of 10 to work underground in a wool mine.