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Trade Unions in the British Industrial Revolution
Trade unions were formed in Britain during the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) to protect workers from unnecessary risks using dangerous machines, unhealthy working conditions, and excessive hours of work. The trade union movement was vigorously...
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The Textile Industry in the British Industrial Revolution
During the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840), textile production was transformed from a cottage industry to a highly mechanised one where workers were present only to make sure the carding, spinning, and weaving machines never stopped. Driven...
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Luddite
The Luddites, named after their legendary leader Ned Ludd, were workers who protested at the mechanization of the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution. From 1811 to 1816, the violent strategy of the Luddites was to smash the...
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Factory near Pontoise by Pissarro
An 1873 oil on canvas, Factory near Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The artist, unlike most other impressionists, was very interested in capturing industrial architecture like this sugar-beet...
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Child Working in a Factory
An early-20th-century photograph by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe of a child working in a factory alongside adults. Child labour was used extensively during the Industrial Revolution and after. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
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Bengal Indigo Factory
An illustration of a 19th-century indigo factory in Bengal, India. (From William Simpson's 'India: Ancient and Modern').
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Garum Factory in Lixus
Fish-salting and garum-manufacturing workshops in Lixus (modern-day Morocco). The complex had 23 closely-spaced vats (cetariae) and functioned from 40/60 CE to the early 6th century CE. The factory had a salting capacity of over one million...
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Ruins of a Garum Factory, Baelo Claudia
The ruins of a Roman garum or fish sauce factory in Baelo Claudia, southern Spain.
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Ruins of an Indigo Factory
Ruins of an indigo factory at Mongalganj, near Bangaon in West Bengal, India. Indigo was an important cash crop for the East India Company and during the British Raj.
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A Garum Factory
A watercolour depiction of the fish salting tanks at a Garum factory at the Roman Ruins of the Villa at Cerro da Vila which was built c. 27 BCE - 14 CE. The villa is located in what is now the resort of Vilamoura in Loule, Portugal.