Sugar Labour In The 1800s
The first industrial factories were the sugar mills of the Americas. The sugar mills contained sophisticated and organizational systems that can be compared to modern industries and characteristics. Sugar plantations in the seventeenth century involved slaves and freemen engaging in brute labor. The plantation would include a mill, boiling house, curing house, distillery for rum, and a storehouse. The structure alone presented refined technology of the time and included a large work force. Yet not all of the workers were involved in the laborious employment as some worked in the specialized labor of crushing, boiling, and distilling sugar plants. The sugar mills were identified as the first factories due to the complexity, scale, and group management of the mills. The process of creating the final product of sugar was time dependent. It consisted of
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As the mills improved there was more demand for more habituated labor forces. Slaves and laborers worked day and night making the sugar mills the first factories managed by the control of modern industrialized time. Workers had to correspond their efforts while working as one. This method produced a far-reaching amount of sugar and caused the prices of the commodity to descend. The per capita sugar consumption rose while other goods stood still. Sugar turned from a luxury and medicine into a mass food and later on a food additive. Sugar fueled the Industrial Revolution while fueling the European manufacturing labor pool. The product that is in many of our foods today was the first industrial product that intensely worked thousands of slaves who made it possible. The sugar mills used technology that included the essence of modern qualities and was window into the industrial
As the mills improved there was more demand for more habituated labor forces. Slaves and laborers worked day and night making the sugar mills the first factories managed by the control of modern industrialized time. Workers had to correspond their efforts while working as one. This method produced a far-reaching amount of sugar and caused the prices of the commodity to descend. The per capita sugar consumption rose while other goods stood still. Sugar turned from a luxury and medicine into a mass food and later on a food additive. Sugar fueled the Industrial Revolution while fueling the European manufacturing labor pool. The product that is in many of our foods today was the first industrial product that intensely worked thousands of slaves who made it possible. The sugar mills used technology that included the essence of modern qualities and was window into the industrial