06/01/16
Lesson 3: Labor Conditions
Learning Objective: I can understand and explain the actions taken by the Parliamentary Commission on Children's Employment to oversee labor conditions.
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Working individually or in small groups, read the Employment Commission Account of "Climbing boys in Sweeping Chimneys" and the poem "The Little Chimney Sweep." Answer the questions below in a google doc. Please make sure you're keeping your gdrive folder organized.
- Identify the author/speaker of each piece.
- How does each piece portray children who work as sweepers?
- What purpose does each author/speaker have?
Share your answers as a class when finished.
In order to obtain information for the Parliamentary Commission on Children’s Employment (1842), employers were presented with “queries” to be filled out and returned within a week after they were received. If an employer omitted a question, he had to explain why. The finished queries were to be returned to the Commissioners under cover to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home Department. Read the queries (Student Handout 10). Then, working with the whole class or in groups, analyze and discuss the questions that the Parliamentary interviewers asked.
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- Were the questions designed to obtain thorough answers, or not?
- Do the questions reveal bias? If so, what kind?
- From these questions, what picture do you get of labor conditions in mid-nineteenth century England?
- If you were designing a similar survey, what questions would you ask?
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