Industrial+Economy+Effects+on+Women

Rama Manneh!!!!

__Discuss the effects of the industrial economy on Western European peasant women and working class women from 1830-1914.__

__Thesis:__ Since the beginning, life in the industry for women was very hard and dreadful and life in that day was very difficult to keep up with.

Effects on women: Industrialization was very widespread in Western Europe during the mid-1800s.
 * employed in large numbers in factories and mines
 * made up two-thirds of cotton industrys labor
 * had to send their children off to work as well
 * outbreaks of diseases
 * unsanitary conditions
 * life in factories and mines
 * very tiring conditions
 * long hours
 * were paid half or less than what men recieved
 * Factory Acts of 1933
 * limited the work hours
 * limited the work hours