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How many hours a day did unskilled laborers work during the Industrial Revolution?

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Working days, which reached more than fourteen hours a day.

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The Industrial Revolution or First Industrial Revolution is the process of economic, social and technological transformation that began in the second half of the 18th century in the Kingdom of Great Britain, which spread a few decades later to a large part of Western Europe and Anglo-Saxon America, and that concluded between 1820 and 1840. During this period the greatest set of economic, technological and social transformations of the history of mankind was experienced since the Neolithic, which saw the transition from a rural economy based fundamentally on agriculture and commerce to an urban economy, industrialized and mechanized.

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. People worked fourteen to sixteen hours a day for six days a week.

During the Industrial Revolution, companies attempted to maximize the output of their factories by keeping them running as many hours as possible. With a long line of people willing to work, employers also set low wages


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