victorian+avisprosjekt

THE CONDITIONS IN THE WORKER’S HOUSES ARE GETTING WORSE The industrial revolution spreading throughout Britain these days makes a lot of new workstations for the British people. The use of steam-powered machines is obviously the main reason why Britain gets a massive increase in number of factories.  The farmers wages are, as known, very low at the moment, which forces so many farmers to move from the countryside and settle in the towns where they can get themselves better paid jobs. The hope of better paid jobs seems much more important for the workers then their houses, but sooner or later they have to realise that they can’t live in these houses.  The worker’s houses are built too close, with cheap materials and thin walls. The houses are put up quickly, with no running water and no proper fire places. Most of the houses are without proper windows, and the housing conditions make children and workers sick. There are rarely any backyards to find. Perhaps one single one among thousand others! Ordinary workers houses usually have between 2-4 rooms, which includes a couple of tiny rooms upstairs and downstairs. The status today is starting to become pretty bad both for the workers and for the overfilled cities. The workers live in overcrowded, humid houses, where several families need to share the same house. Very often you can find overfilled houses with five or more people possibly crammed into a single room, even the cellars are filled up to the edge!  If a family can’t find themselves a house, they have to stay in lodging houses, which can be fairly expensive in the long run. Most of the workers don’t earn enough to be able to rent a house at all.  Due to the narrow, unhealthy overfilled houses, the workers have yet another huge problem; sanitation!  There is no running water or toilet, which imply that the workers aren  ’ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">t able to wash and clean themselves after work. This is a huge and serious problem, because after a long day at work, the workers get pretty dirty and they have a requirement to get rid of all the bacteria they get from the chimney-smoke! If somebody needs to go to the toilet, they have to go outside, down the dirty, smelling street among sewer and a lot of rubbish where they can find a public toilet to use. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Somebody needs to take charge, because    <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">without any decent possibility to clean and wash yourself, it <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Century Schoolbook';"> ’  <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s just a matter of time before bad diseases will flourish. Just during the previous years a lot of workers have been reported dead, mostly induced by diseases as <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">typhus, smallpox and dysentery. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Is this not the factory owner <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Century Schoolbook';"> ’ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s responsibility? They are the ones in need of cheap labour. It is about time they show some responsibility and provide     better  <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> housing for the workers families!
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333300; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The conditions are getting inhuman for the factory-workers. Diseases, dirty, cheap houses without private toilets and running water are only some of the reasons why so many workers die. **