WORKING CONDITIONS

The working conditions were also poor and very dangerous too. Workers had to work for long hours with very little pay. The mills required high temperatures with the steam engines. Dangerous machines were not fenced off and there were no safety policies.

Wool combing is an example of dangerous work because the workers were injured in many different ways. Hot oil would be spluttering on their faces, which would have burned their skin. Smoke would have been stinging their eyes and enabling them to see. The temperatures were very high and they would have been holding massive, razor sharp, metal combs, which would have been very dangerous.

Ivegate, Bradford in 1905