Option One- US vs GB

During the industrial revolution, the United States and Great Britain had the same common goal yet 2 completely different ways of achieving it. In the United States, mill workers were treated with as much respect and you would expect for people of their social status at the time, whereas in Great Britain people with the same rights as the people who hired them are being treated as slaves.

In Great Britain, children worked 17 hour days which after long periods of time caused deformities such as bones bending or moving over time, bones bending inward or outward, arthritis and many more. It was reported that since there wasn't one kill switch that would turn off the machines all at once, if a child got caught in a machine they'd hardly ever even bother turning it off. Throughout their 17 hour days, the children would get no nourishment aside from fatty meat and potatoes that were usually full of cotton fibers, and that they had to eat at the machines. The children workers were beaten severely if they didn't do their work properly and efficiently, such as William Hughes, a child mill worker, was beaten by his overlookers son to the point where he "couldn't even crawl". Had they not gone to that extreme, the children would have had better conditions. Women were beaten in front of men as to embarrass them, such as flogging them over their [the masters] knee in front of men and boys.This behavior towards workers reflected poorly towards their reputation. 

Image of orphans doing hard and dangerous tasks necessary for the machines to be ran, but too dangerous for anyone to let their children do. (England)

Thanks to the Lowell Experiment, girls in the US were promised amazing working conditions as well as living conditions. They were promised a paternal system, which was the men who ran the mills and the house mothers. Aside from the budget cuts they were doing very well at keeping the girls happy. They had the freedom of making their own decisions and how they'd spend their own money and got an education that they never would have had access to at home, and they received 3 meals a day as well as leisure time. 

The Lowell Experiment was created with the sole purpose of saving girls in the US from meeting the same fate as Great Britain citizens had been for years. The conclusion my class and I have come to throughout these past few weeks of studying the industrial revolution, is that in Great Britain, the mill owners were profit hungry and cared little to none for their workers, but in the US they needed to put the workers first in order to even have workers, and once they hired someone they intended to keep them happy and healthy until they were no longer of use.