Wednesday, October 9, 2013

USA and Great Britain Comparison


The majority of industrialists were more likely to succeed in Great Britain. Great Britain had plentiful labor and the population increased since there was better food production which gave more people jobs in the factories. The factory owners made more money when they had more people working in the factories. Unlike in the United states where the labor force was limited to young girls working in the factories. In Great Britain the factory business was booming and new factories would open up. An industrialist would be more likely to succeed in Great Britain with the factories and their productions not slowing down anytime soon. 

A textile mill where the workers would spend the majority of their days.

In the United States the workers had a more positive experience than working in Great Britain. The workers in the United States had a less time consuming schedule, better living conditions, receive a decent education, and in their free time: they got to explore the city, buy what they want with their money, watch plays, and gain their independence. In the United States the living conditions were much better than in Great Britain where there was more factories than in the US polluting the air. The girls experience would be better in Lowell because like it says in the article "Early Factory Labor in New England" it says "In the eyes of her overseer she was but a brute, a slave, to be beaten, pinched and pushed about." This source starts of talking about how in England and France how badly the girls were treated in Britain and that wasn't the case in America as much as it was Britain. In the United States the girls would have a much more positive experience displayed with the reasons I have stated above.

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