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प्रश्न
Read the source given below and answer the question that follows:
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Will Thorne is one of those who went in search of seasonal work, loading bricks and doing odd jobs. He describes how job-seekers walked to London in search of work: 'I had always wanted to go to London, and my desire… was stimulated by letters from an old workmate… who was now working at the Old Kent Road Gas Works… I finally decided to go… in November 1881. With two friends I started out to walk the journey, filled with the hope that we would be able to obtain employment, when we get there, with the kind assistance of my friend… we had little money when we started, not enough to pay for our food and lodgings each night until we arrived in London. Some days we walked as much as twenty miles, and other days less. Our money was gone at the end of the third day… For two nights we slept out - once under a haystack, and once in an old farm shed… On arrival in London we tried to find… my friend… but… were unsuccessful. Our money was gone, so there was nothing for us to do but walk around until late at night, and then try to find someplace to sleep. We found an old building and slept in it that night. The next day, Sunday, late in the afternoon, we got to the Old Kent Gas Works and applied for work. To my great surprise, the man we had been looking for was working at the time. He spoke to the foreman and I was given a job.’ |
- Analyse the major factor which led London to become an attractive place for job seekers.
- Analyse the reason for the appointment of Will Thorne by the Old Kent Gas works.
- Examine the preference of hand labour over machines by the industrialists of Victorian Britain.
उत्तर
- Owing to the industrial revolution and the existence of employment opportunities in London's factories.
- Low-paying workers were needed for the seasonal industry of gas work.
- i. Machines required significant capital expenditures.
ii. Machines were expensive, inefficient, and challenging to fix.
iii. Low-paying labour was readily available.
iv. Only seasonal labour was needed in these industries.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Which of the following countries faced labour shortages in the nineteenth century?
Why couldn’t the merchants expand production within towns?
Which of the following is not a reason why industrialists in 19th century Europe preferred hand labour over machines?
Name the most dynamic industry in Britain.
First country to undergo industrial revolution is ____________.
Who invented the steam engine ____________.
In the early nineteenth century, ____________ increasingly became an intimate part of the English landscape.
The steam engine produced by Newcomen was patented with a new engine by ____________.
| Before the Industrial Revolution in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, merchants from the towns in Europe began moving to the countryside, supplying money to peasants and artisans, persuading them to produce for an international market. With the expansion of world trade and the acquisition of colonies in different parts of the world, the demand for goods began growing. But merchants could not expand production within towns. This was because here urban crafts and trade guilds were powerful. These were associations of producers that trained craftspeople, maintained control over production, regulated competition and prices, and restricted the entry of new people into the trade. Rulers granted different guilds the monopoly right to produce and trade in specific products. It was, therefore, difficult for new merchants to set up business in towns. So, they turned to the countryside. |
With the expansion of which trade, the demand for goods began growing?
Who among the following improved the steam engine?
