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Mini Paper 3

Mini Paper 3

Q Read the packet of Primary Sources "2022-Spring-Primary-Sources-Sec-3" in the "General Information" Module of Canvas, and answer the questions at the end of the packet. These are the voices of the workers in the factories that were built at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, telling us what conditions were like in the unregulated industrial environment. Please use specific examples from the sources; I want to see that you actually read what these men, women, and children actually said.

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The new types of discipline, "In the factory, the whistle, the time clock, and the automated machine imposed a new oppressive and monotonous discipline" (Pg.545). It also included work schedules, long hours, no conversations aside from work-related matters, no leaving early, no coming in late, no smoking, no drinking, and the worst one having overseers! They needed to implement these new disciplines because the "Workers in the new factories of the Industrial Revolution had been accustomed to a lifestyle" that was more of their own pace and without urgency when working. The new factory work "demanded a new, rigorous discipline geared to the require-mems of the machines."