'The working class suffered because of Industrialisation 1832-1846'. Assess this view.


	'The working class suffered because of Industrialisation 1832-1846'. Assess this view.
	Advantages Irish famine 1845 - potato crop failures and prices pushed up = mass starvation. Wages - e.g.- hand-loom weavers earned 25 shillings a week, but in the 1830s it went down to 4 shillings & 6 pence. Poor Law - no help for people earning low wages/being exploited or anyone unemployed.	Disadvantages Railways - 300,000 navvies were employed in the railway industry at the end of 1846. Removing tariffs - trade revived, exports increased, unemployment and prices fell. POLITICAL - lack of w/class vote = suffering. Chartist movement. Sanitation - Royal Commission of Health of Towns 1843, to verify Chadwick's report on sanitation = improved sanitation in towns. Better working hours for women and children, e.g.- Factory Act 1844 POLITICAL - lack of reforms - Whigs slowed down and the reforms they passed didn't help (Factory Act limited wages coming into house.
	Evaluation

Irish famine 1845 - potato crop failures and prices pushed up = mass starvation.
Wages - e.g.- hand-loom weavers earned 25 shillings a week, but in the 1830s it went down to 4 shillings & 6 pence.
Poor Law - no help for people earning low wages/being exploited or anyone unemployed.

Railways - 300,000 navvies were employed in the railway industry at the end of 1846.
Removing tariffs - trade revived, exports increased, unemployment and prices fell.
POLITICAL - lack of w/class vote = suffering. Chartist movement.
Sanitation - Royal Commission of Health of Towns 1843, to verify Chadwick's report on sanitation = improved sanitation in towns.
Better working hours for women and children, e.g.- Factory Act 1844
POLITICAL - lack of reforms - Whigs slowed down and the reforms they passed didn't help (Factory Act limited wages coming into house.

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