kq2- key stats

how many back to backs did nottingham have?

12,600 by 1841

working hours before factory act

working week was 6 days long with 14 hour days for men

punishments for coming late

• 10 mins late → common to be fine 2 hours wages

• caught talking → fined 1 shilling or 1/5 daily wages

mining invention developments

• 1815 davy lamp still left it very dangerous

• mines became deeper to extract larger qualities

  • from 90m in 18th century to

how young was the working population?

• by 1821- 49% were under 20

key injury

• 1859- scavenger in Wigan, 13 year old, Martha Appleton caught her hand in a machine and severed her fingers

  • no compensation- just lost her job

when did the luddite movement begin?

• 1811- nottingham lasted 6 years

• aggressive tactics used to protect skilled trade against new machinery

luddite methods

• 1812- around 1000 frames destroyed in nottingham

  • estimated £8,000 cost

• wrote threatening letters to employers

• destroyed machinery in factories if demands refused

luddite consequences

• 1812 frame breaking act

  • deliberate destruction became a crime

luddite response

• 1812- still continued

• william cartwright owned rawford mill

• soldiers brought in to protect machines

• mill was attacked & 2 luddites killed

when were the swing riots?

• 1830- broke out after 2 poor harvests which left countryside with limited money and produce

threshing machine issue

• could do work of 15 men in 1 day

• made by andrew meikle

kent burnings

• august 1830- spread across neighbouring counties to yorkshire

• riots didn’t end till 1831

swing riot arrests

• around 1970 arrested

• 19 executed

when was the ten hour movement?

1830s with richard oastler

mines act

• 1842- all women including boys under 10 banned from working underground

• no one under 15 could operate machinery