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Insights from a Historic Textile Factory Worker Interview

Read John Allett's account from 1832 when he spoke about accidents at work, shedding light on the dangers faced by child workers in textile factories back then.

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Insights from a Historic Textile Factory Worker Interview

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  1. Bell Work: 11.13.13 • (4) John Allett started working in a textile factory when he was fourteen years old. Allett was fifty-three when he was interviewed by Michael Sadler and his House of Commons Committee on 21st May, 1832. • Question: Do more accidents take place at the latter end of the day? • Answer: I have known more accidents at the beginning of the day than at the later part. I was an eye-witness of one. A child was working wool, that is, to prepare the wool for the machine; but the strap caught him, as he was hardly awake, and it carried him into the machinery; and we found one limb in one place, one in another, and he was cut to bits; his whole body went in, and was mangled. 1. What is this writing referring to? 2. What are your thoughts about this?

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