Female Mill Workers

The industrial revolution is the beginning of new machinery that made it possible to produce mass-produces in factories within minutes. Starting in Britain and spreading throughout Europe, Japan, and North America, the industrial revolution was noticed worldwide and became very popular through factories. Females soon became very involved with the revolution as they found that it was much easier than making everything by hand all day. The experiences of female mill workers in England and Japan are very similar through the ages of the workers, the conditions they had to work with, and the production of the mills. The ages of the feminine mill workers became a big part of the industrial revolution. In both Japan and England, the ages of the female mill workers ranged from their mid-teens to about 60 year of age. In England many female mill workers started working at a very young age, 40% began working in textile mills at the age of around ten years old (Douglas A. Galbi). Meanwhile, the females working in the mills in Japan had age limits of 10 years old to 60 years old (Janet Hunter). There were about three-thousand three hundred eighty-three Japanese female mill workers 16 years old or younger working in

The female mill workers in both England and Japan both worked hours that were similar, on the weekdays they both worked about thirteen to fourteen hours, with breaks in between every so often. They both had 15 to 30 minute breaks for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and random small breaks throughout the day (Doc. E). In Hyde, England, a female mill Loom operator earned 12 pence daily, which is equal to .19 dollars in American money (Doc. G). In Japan mills, the Loom operators are paid 13 sen daily; translated into American money is .11 dollars (Janet Hunter). This is a very similar daily wage difference, as this most likely made an impact on the production of the