The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution's time period stretches from the 18th century to the 19th century.
There were major changes in agriculture, manufacturing and mining and transport had a major effect on the very poor conditions....but the effects started in the UK, and then spread throughout Europe and North America.
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Quoted from the back of the book:
A book based on The IR, is all about families who work in one of the workhouses; A mill. And this one particular family.....who have these two twin girls who absolute LOATH each other.
Pauline (Twin # one) labors from dawn to dusk alongside the other members of her family at the local cotton mill, wishing she could stay home like her sister.
Meanwhile, Arlene (twin # 2) takes care of all the housework and cooking, dreaming of working at the mill one day and earning both money and respect.
Each is sure the other has the easy life, but discovers wrong she is over the course of one remarkable week.
The story is Called: January 1905 and its author is
Katharine Boling.
Things I noticed in the book include to be a bucket service which is very much like the food delivering services we have today. (Except they come by cars and in containers....not by buckets.)
Arlene is the only one in the family who stays home, so she brings out the meals to her family at the mill.
(She also does the chores around the house your parents would usually do) She also helps her neighbors when they are in trouble.....like Miss Bertha...she needed help when delivering Mrs. Harrell's baby boy.
A song made for the children of the mill....
We are the boys, who work from dawn till dusk.
In the mill all day long....
Our shirts are always dirty as well as our shoes and socks.
Our bosses are mean and nasty, making us do the worst, our dinner's always cold and the ground as thick as ice.
The floorboards creak beneath us as we sweep the floor, the dust and dirt swirls around my feet.
