Could You Survive as a Victorian Factory Worker?

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Title	:	Could You Survive as a Victorian Factory Worker?
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I would like to see how the slave trade benefitted the UK Especially as the Royal Navy had anti-slavery patrols as early as 1808 and having the Slave Trace Act (1807) forbidding any British subject from trading slaves etc
Comment from : Gordon Lawrence

No I’m sure I couldn’t have survived
Comment from : Canuck13

Hey, when you guys have your cast dress for the performance in a suit tuxedo, whether it be tailored to them or not, will you please at the minimum remove the threads that are holding the tail to the side of the jacket Not only will it look more proper, but your actors will be more comfortable as well
Comment from : J240Maggie

laughs in 1776
Comment from : Yaki Kadafi

Here is a song called "Doffin' Mistress," sung by Maddy Prior & June Tabor
Comment from : deenibeeniable

I find it amazing that just recently I went on two or three walks around this waterfall, and I didn't have a clue what it was all about!So happy to have found your channel!
Comment from : Konrad Nowicki

Where are all the men? You make it look like there are only girls working…
Comment from : Phaym Phantom

And now we can't even finish HS2, a short railway the Industrial Revolution would have done in under a year
Comment from : Dead Andburied

I don't believe that child labour contract was real Why? Because no sane person would touch such an old document with their bare hands!
Comment from : YamiKisara

This is incredible well produced Bravo
Comment from : Ghostatic

In those days it didn't matter if you survived There were plenty more workers to replace you
Comment from : Timothy Stapleman

immediately no
Comment from : I Lynn

I'd rather die, altough I probably already am, considering the child mortality, hmm, lucky me I guess
Comment from : Mr ANdeRson

at 14:10 you can see that the old machine has newer looking buttons on the control area
Comment from : mr X

Nowadays we rant about how there's no more any factory jobs
Comment from : Renegade Ace

- Could You Survive as a Victorian Factory Worker?brbr- No
Comment from : helcat316

The outfits need to be more period accurate The outfits are distracting They are breaking immersionbrbrYour wardrobe should be as accurat and given as much attention to detail as your script brbrGreat video
Comment from : Lawfulgood

Man this is happening again today
Comment from : Captain Splatter

I couldn't I'm too lazy
Comment from : Robert Paulson

I think, i would rather live by day land lifgt and seasons
Comment from : kleo kleopatra

The Victorian Amazon
Comment from : jay kay

I can’t help but feel that this is why they lent so hard on suicide being a sin in historical times - because if you could kill yourself, it would probably have been quite tempting
Comment from : Pringle Prangle

It should not be confounded that the low wages and long hours were consequences of a lack of legislation It is evident from the records that society was destitute and unproductive to a degree simply unimaginable nowadays The absence of capital meant that there was little in terms of means of production to operate, and plenty of hands to do it And without said means of production, a family living in a small plot of land, without fertilizers, without pesticides, without modern crop varieties and weather forecasts and silos Could only hope to labour year round for a meager feed for it's family and perhaps a few possessions to replace the ones inherited from their dead parents The positive improvements in work life were achieved in correlation (sometimes delayed) with gains in economic productivity and accumulation of capital only possible because of the wonders of modern mass production and industrial machinery For every worker toiling in a factory there were several still just about scraping by in extreme poverty, and even those in most factories would hardly produce enough for a family if only the father worked even if there was to be 0 profit on the capital investment by the owner It was a dreadful time, but the overall message should be one of gratitude for those generations that built our comfortable world of today, for without the machines our world relies on, we'd be no better than they were
Comment from : Anderson Klein

I'd rather be a farmer
Comment from : tuphdc

In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains Such is the nature of the “competition” between the strong and the weak of the intellect Such is the pattern of “exploitation” for which you have damned the strongbr—Galt’s Speech
Comment from : lamalamalex

Do not worry you may get your turn working till you drop under the Tory Government
Comment from : jas20per

Funny isnt it really because this will be modern day society soon You will work until you drop
Comment from : Dean WILLIAMS

I worked at a place just a few years ago that operated exactly like this No joke The only difference is that they didn’t employ children
Comment from : Jimmie Sledd

This is the future if the republicans in the United States have their way - Child Labor and Abuse and all 😠
Comment from : John

1 salary one family + house
Comment from : Eunan Avesani

Many of them, especially the children, got no pay Room and board with little to eat was the standard They did literally work until they dropped The industrial age was a scourge on our society that never really ended
Comment from : Finarfin Noldorin

talk about the orphanages and how they got their cabbage patch sales
Comment from : Carl G

I haven't had a single day off since July 2nd It is now September 29th, my days off are scheduled for October 19th I work 12 to 14 hours a day in the oil field Yeah I'm sure I could survive that Matter of fact it would probably be nice to slow down a little bit
Comment from : Branden Scott

I used to work 12s at a chemical plant Th last hour of shift allways caused the most accidents You just go through the motionsyou're thinking brain isn't there
Comment from : Midnightspecia1

Only safe place would been working for George Westinghouse
Comment from : Pass the B S

Ahhh thank goodness No woke stuff here
Comment from : wes adams

Unfortunately we went the other way and we have generations of lazy and useless kids everywhere
Comment from : Szymon T

All the young folks today believe they could make it, because they believe they work harder than any previous generation They are also idiots
Comment from : Jarrett Nash

Why were people evening breeding?
Comment from : Ledwys Delgado

Interesting but sad documentary! The British Empire prides itself on ending Slavery, but in reality, these Cotton Mills were just another form of Slavery The Mill owners, instead of owning slaves, gave just enough for the workers to survive They also engaged in Slavery, indirectly, by purchasing Cotton from the US Southern Plantations Farmers were basically no different The Aristocracy owns 30 of the land Most of the farmers were tenant farmers and the Landlords had unrestricted control, thus another form of slavery!
Comment from : John T

I’m sorry, but the costumes are terrible
Comment from : Theodini Magic

The school I went to as a child had slave clocks in the classrooms that ran off the central clock in the office They didn't have second hands at all The minute hands clicked forward every minute When the bell rang we had two minutes to get to our next class
Comment from : The Sisyphean Journal

Ayn Rand contacted me from the other side and said she doesn't appreciate the "implications" made in this video
Comment from : Janus

work children to death and trading material for humans What a wonderful society the white people of britain were
Comment from : Shadi Sammoun

Ngl living in a hunter gatherer society sounds like a better time than being a Victorian cotton mill worker Life expectancy of mid 30s/40 tops either way, but at least you still get to breathe fresh air
Comment from : CyanCyborg

12 hour days, six days a week sounds impossible Probably on your feet most of the time & maybe no breaks except for lunch No wonder the death rate was high Who could stay healthy living like that?
Comment from : Marilyn Mccormick

You list or describe each job used in the factories
Comment from : Tam Quen

so i've almost finish listening to it and i must say i'm half deaf to to machineries noise and half my right index is missing due to a work accident so other thant legal age to start work, hours per week worked and physical abuse that turned into psychological abuse the rest asn't change at all low pay, working base on the clock and the soud of a siren to summon us, working in the heat and humidity with small windows and barely any exterior light and some dick head foreman it asn't change that much unfortunately
Comment from : lets play avec Alnos

just 6 minutes in, but as a factory worker, so far excepted the hr / week, it asn't realy change
Comment from : lets play avec Alnos

White privilege again
Comment from : David Rixon

You all must be willing to die first before working there African American understand slavery down to a science and that is the ONLY way the Aristocrats understand the collective power Their own ancestors had to have the balls to do the same to become the people their children are today! You must WIN!
Comment from : The Walled Garden At Norris Lake

It's good things have moved on But, some of the comments below don't take into account the time period This was a product of It's time In 200 years now will be very different
Comment from : Black Rose

Great video poor souls 12 hour sihift at such a young age 😮
Comment from : JacksonPaul Jackson

Yes as I've worked 3 jobs a day at one time with 19 hour days So easy peasy
Comment from : m j exploration

Picture Gen Z laboring in such basic conditions
Comment from : B F

No I could not
Comment from : An Absolutely Normal Seraph

The robber baron myth
Comment from : Hugo Zierth

Is this a documentary of the past, or of the future Under a conservative government I'd say the future!!
Comment from : ccca registrar

Cotton was the conflict mineral of this time period Those mills would not have raw cotton without slavery in the American south
Comment from : Jennifer D

14 hrs scavenging as a 6 year old seems absolutely physically impossible
Comment from : CDeezy

Answer? No, I’d not last long before succumbing to respiratory illness
Comment from : Marie Katherine

I couldnt even survive as a modern day factory worker honestly
Comment from : daniellexdawn

Interesting view of the working conditions The docu is conspicuously silent about how the UK absolutely ruined/took over the Indian cotton industry however
Comment from : Patrick den Drijver

all those people profiting from american slavery to put their own people through indentured slavery
Comment from : craig W

Maybe Kaczynski had a point
Comment from : Videogame

My ancestors (I'm from Manchester) had it terrible, maybe I should seek an apology, or even reparations, that's what we do nowadays right?
Comment from : Fourking Gulliman

I already work more than that for a pittance!
Comment from : Michael

I would just use my white privilege card and get my slaves to do the work oh wait, this isnt Hollywood history
Comment from : Anti-globalist

We will soon find out as we head back to the dark ages once again
Comment from : Peter Fox

I worked in a carpet milll it was hard work 12 hours a day
Comment from : Sam Right

Canadian policing and our justice system is Victorian This is one of the reasons why I continue to suffer the way I do Why for example the RCMP uses dirty tricks and disruption to get their man more than the FBI Extrajudicial punishment is far more widely accepted in our justice system than the American one People have no idea that the attitudes have been passed down through the last century While Scotland Yard and the intelligence community in Britain moved on, Canada hung on to old ideas This happens to all immigrants for example, they get stuck in time Maclean's Magazine said it in 1979, RCMP and Canadian police forces are addicted to using disruption and dirty tricks on their targets It's a cheap and easy way to get them to off themselves while simultaneously waterboarding them for information on the who, what, where and how of their entire life and community they belong in Community Oriented Policing is based on this garbage: torturing the most vulnerable so you can listen in and gather information illegally without a warrant If you do it across the country in enough communities, you have a pulse on what's going on Problem is, people like me are the victims Poor and vulnerable families are born with this so they can torture a few of them later on to misuse for their own purposes This practice needs to end But before they end it, they have to admit that it exists which they refuse to do
Comment from : Tony Branco

And here we get a zoomer crying on tiktok for working a 6 hour shift at a cafe
Comment from : GORSATRON

they were NOT coming looking for a better life, they were forced into slavery after losing their land in the Encloses Act
Comment from : Ajrwilde

12:16 Some garment worker in India/Bangldesh/China/Burma/Cambodia watching this with subtitles on his/her mobile phone < "Hey, that's very familiar" >
Comment from : Jonathan Tan

Haven't even started the vid yet and ima take a gander hell nah none of of could work in this factory we would be swinging on our sups for the disrespect 😂😂😂
Comment from : Caleb Taylor

Hi i m work here
Comment from : AK Tapan

One point that I do not like:brbrThe Victorian Age is 1837-1901 and you use quite a few examples that pre-date that (Ie the child labour contract) Yes, the VA was no paradise but they are the times where child protection and mandatory schools become a part of the enforced laws
Comment from : M BR

That poor man who had an accident and lost his arm, it probably happened because he was knackered from working at the mill 😢
Comment from : Lucia the Hermit

Terrible abuse of children!
Comment from : Lucia the Hermit

What's the difference ?
Comment from : Black Rose

White privilage at its best
Comment from : Philip Curry

Isnt ohio trying to implement child labour?
Comment from : Haruhi Suzumiya

No wonder people stole bread instead
Comment from : Haruhi Suzumiya

The children yearn for the mines
Comment from : Haruhi Suzumiya

I start my work at 8:00 and i complain about that and I don't need to walk too much I take the TTC to work and walk about 10min to my workplace 😆
Comment from : Thomas H Ninan

it's a sweatshop
Comment from : Thomas H Ninan

can you survive without work? esp in those early capitalist days? yeah, barely don't blame capitalism for low living standards that capitalism helped improved enormously
Comment from : metal87power

And now American republicans are bringing child labor back!
Comment from : Jonathan Kerbein

5 shillings is around 25p now
Comment from : enya smith

and ppl are talking about 6 hour work days too day and its the same talking points from workers that its gonna ruin there economy but hell it worked too shrink it down from 14 hour too 8 hours so why not 6 hours imo
Comment from : noerden91