DawnM Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Everything we are looking up is related to children working in the factory. We are trying to find adult male jobs in factories during the Victorian Era. My son has to find a specific job.....not just "factory worker." I know textile work was very prevalent, but can you name two or three specific jobs a 20 year old male would have in a factory? Or point us to the right websites? Thanks, Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/work/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Manager comes to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 (edited) Check out this page for lists of Occupations in Victorian England, with numbers employed in those jobs, and wages. From a very fast superficial search, it looks like much of the factory work (esp. textile mills) was done by women and children, while unskilled or semi-skilled jobs for men tended to NOT be in the factories so much as in coal mining, construction, working on the railways or in the navy yards (rope making and rigging, boat-building, etc. or as sailors), agriculture, skilled trade workers and unskilled support jobs in the trades, urban "odd jobs", and as domestic labor (gardeners, grooms, hired help, etc.) Check out this page from the book Work, Gender, and Family in Victorian England -- it looks like in the second half of the 19th century (early Victorian times), adult men increasingly worked in skilled and supervisory jobs (at least in textile factories). From Jean in Newcastle's link, in one of the sub-links, it does look like that in the early Victorian era, a factory might be a large warehouse which "mass produced" (through large number of workers working by hand, NOT mechanized production) a product or finished off a product, and you might have a number of stations with grinding stones for grinding or sharpening different products. Edited December 7, 2016 by Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/england/lancashire/article_1.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted December 9, 2016 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/work/index.html I saw that, but it has to be a specific job in a factory. Not a general job as listed here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted December 9, 2016 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 Manager comes to mind. Do you have any links to what exactly the job entails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted December 9, 2016 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/england/lancashire/article_1.shtml Thanks. That is still a bit general. He is supposed to write several paragraphs about a specific job and what it entails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluepetermum Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) Men employed in chemical factories who had to balance on one-legged stools in order to avoid falling asleep? Interesting because it emphasises how factory work was simultaneously boring and dangerous. This page seems like a good starting point - last paragraph: http://www.wattylercountrypark.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5001 Edited December 9, 2016 by bluepetermum 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted December 9, 2016 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 Thank you. I can't believe how hard it is to find info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) One has to do one's research. The article I linked listed a few specific jobs men had in the cotton factory, with a few details about mule-spinners. From there, further research will pick up more details. If you want to list the job he chose to research, perhaps people can play librarian and suggest sources. Edited December 9, 2016 by Heigh Ho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) What about the Victorian potteries (Stoke on Trent area, etc.)? Here's a list of jobs, and what they entailed: http://www.thepotteries.org/jobs/index.htm ETA: the pottery work was largely dominated by men, here's another source: https://books.google.com/books?id=KhGeKyNbYn8C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=men+in+victorian+potteries&source=bl&ots=GBsgAFuY8H&sig=BJmE11W5E6ZSxdNzdSBH_LLLrNc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiT7anRp-fQAhUrwFQKHXmVBSIQ6AEINzAG#v=onepage&q=men%20in%20victorian%20potteries&f=false Edited December 9, 2016 by kbeal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexigail Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 I'm a little late here but the book North and South comes to mind. The men and women were employed in a cotton mill. Very dangerous work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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