LIVING CONDITIONS

QUALITY OF LIFE

• decrease in quality of life in first 60 yrs
• Weavers:
• no longer lived at their own pace
• no longer use their own income for gardening, spinning, or harvesting

Quality Cont.

• Skilled Workers:
• Sharp downturn
• Neighborhood once neat and orderly, now filthy and miserable

RECREATION

• spent the day at work
• had little energy, space, and light for rec.
• new industrial life didn't agree with old traditions
• in 1850's, rec. improved with the rise of middle class
• music and sports gained popularity

Poorest of Poor

• desperate times led to "poor houses"
• set up by government
• Poor Law of 1834 created workhouses for poor
• designed to be harsh places to discourage being on relief
• very similar to prisons; shows desperation