Social and Political Effects

• Working Conditions and Social Life

  • Evidence Given Before the Sadler Committee

  • The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers

  • Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission

  • Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning, 1794

  • Working Hours in Factories - A look at reports of working hours for children and adults in the factories.

  • Accidents - Interviews and information about accidents in the factories.

  • Factory Pollution

  • Wages - A comparison of wages between men and women, children and adults.

  • Working Hours of Women in Factories

  • Friedrich Engels, The Conditions of the Working Class in England

  • Women Miners in the English Coal Pits, 1842

  • Harret Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls, 1834-1848

  • Andrew Ure (1778-1857): The Philosophy of the Manufacturers, 1835

  • Wages, the Cost of Living, and Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money

  • Victorian Occupations -- Life and Labor in the Victorian Period: An Overview

  • Child Labor

  • The Life of the Industrial Worker in Early Ninteenth-Century England

  • Billingsgate (London Fishmarket) at 5 am

  • The Lack of Social Security in Victorian England

  • Clara Collett, Charles Booth, and Urban Poverty

  • Needlewomen: Dressmakers, Milliners, and Slop-workers

  • The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers

  • Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission

  • Life in London (an account from 1871)

  • From London Coffee Houses to London Clubs

  • The Development of Leisure in Britain, 1700-1850

  • The Development of Leisure in Britain after 1850

  • Punch on Sunday pub closing

  • Technology and Leisure in Britain after 1850

  • Crime and the Victorian Household

  • The Workhouse

  • Letters from the Past: a collection of primary sources

• Health

  • Victorian attitudes towards Health

  • The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers

  • Health & Victorian Criticism

  • Diet

  • Women & Children

  • The Working Classes