Question

Explain,
Woman workers in Britain attacked the Spinning Jenny.

Answer 1

Answer:

• Abundance of labour affected the lives of the workers because the period of employment was less.
• Sometimes the proportion of unemployment went upto between 35 and 75 per cent. The fear of unemployment made workers hostile to the introduction of new technology. When the Spinning Jenny was introduced in the woolen industry, women who survived on hand spinning began attacking the new machines because the machine speeded up the spinning process and reduced labour demand as by turning one single wheel a worker could set in motion a number of spindles and spin several threads at a time.
• This conflict over the introduction of Spinning Jenny continued for a long time.

Answer 2

Explain,

Woman workers in Britain attacked the Spinning Jenny.

Women workers in Britain attacked the Spinning Jenny because it speeded up the spinning process, and consequently, reduced labour demand. This caused a valid fear of unemployment among women working in the woollen industry. Till date, they had survived on hand spinning, but this was placed in peril by the new machine.