In the article read the shceme typicall recalls the scheme of an interview meaning that there are no paragraphs, but the direct dialogue of the actuall interview written down on paper. This means that there is not just one author but more than one (all the people called to whitness), Though even if there is more than one author, they all share one charachteristic; they all used to work in factories in their early stages of their life and they are all poor.
The article describes the life of nineteenth century workers in London, following step by step the Sadler investigation which dealt with child labour in factories during that period of time. It also decribes life in factories, working periods, working conditions and especially family life affected by child labour. But especially it concentrates on how children were abused, usually beaten to be kept under controll, trying allways to keep the audience ( the goverment and the whole population), shocked so that they would understand how bad conditions actually were in factories, but most important how these facts were kept hidden.
Some of the working condtions stated by the interviwed were: Regular beatings for being late, long working hours especially during great productivity periods, how they were forced to walk long distances to reach work, or forced to work in mines for long periods, only having one hour of break per day, reciving low wages, with no family contact, no education, exceessive labour and short resting periods.
In conclusion we may say that they main concerns debated in the article were the ones of child labour and the life of workers in the nineteenth century, majorly fixing its point on letting the whole of England understand what was happening under their nose, what life, England's youth was forced to live. So that by the end of this investigation things could change and child labour could be abolished and working conditions made better.
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Elle:
Q: Did the Sadler investigation achieve anything? and if so what?
Q: What affect did working from a young age have on the later life of the child?
1) Several were the achivements of the Sadler investigation, for example, the first achivement was people's attention, meaning that the investigation got everyone to undrstand what child labour was, how bad it was and most importantly it let them know that it was happening in their country and to their children. Second of all the Sadler investigation also achieved more concrete things like factory acts, which by the end they stated that no children under 10 could be employed, plus working condition wer changed and improved
2) many things were the effect of working from a young age on the later life of the children:first of all the children involved in child labour worked long hours everyday, this kept them a lot of time away from home and from their family, resulting in very little family contact and no education learned, sicne there was no time, plus they had bad manners too. Other effects were several lacerations from beatings and weak bodies because of small resting periods and poor and bad diets
Alessio, it is quite apparent that these are your own words, which is comes with great relief. It is apparent you have a good handle on the content and the purpose of the primary source. Well done.
However, next time, please copy your work into a word document and do some editing before your final post. If you are mindful of your editing etc. you will receive a perfect score next time. Overall, good job. 9/10
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