The plants did not have windows contributing for the increase of the propagation of the known illnesses of the time. Therefore the life of the employees was always in danger. average of life of them was very low, if comparative with our days. Mechanization helped to devaluate the manual work and as consequence the reduction of the wages. When the plants were stops the increase of the unemployment were certain. The work conditions had taken many workers if to rebel against the machines manufacture and them.
To protect the companies, the proprietors and the government if had organized militarily. This makes to appear the unions. These through of the associations they had conquered the prohibition of the infantile work, right to strike and the day of 8 hours per day. Robert Owen (14 of May of 1771 – 17 of November of 1858) was a social reformador Welshman, and a libertarian socialist philosopher. The father of the cooperative movement is considered. Son of a family of modest craftsmen. After to have galgado the different steps of the production, from the learning, became, for return of the 30 years, co-owner and director of important Scottish industries of wiring, in New Lanark.
There it reduced the hours of working for 10,5 daily hours (an advance for the time), made to raise houses for the laborers, first garden-of-infancy and the first cooperative. With its experience, Owen proved that: One has touched humanist motivates the workers in its industry the cotton wires had had quality improvement resulting in profits for its partners, this potentially had to the differentiated treatment given its employees. In 1817 it evolves of the assistencial action for the critical frontal to the capitalism, trying to convince the English authorities, as well as foreigners, of the necessity of reforms in the production sector and, for these you criticize, was I banish from England.