Cotton Industry Dbq Essay

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While industrialization in the cotton industry between the 1880's and 1930's in Japan and India saw an increasing reliance upon machine production, the working conditions in Japan were worse than what was faced in Indian factories, and workers in the factories differed from each other, as Japanese factories employed more women than Indian factories did.

Documents One, Two, and Six stated that machine use and effectiveness was outpacing handwoven cotton and greatly increasing production. Document One applied specifically to India and showed us that up until 1904, machine made cloth was rising at a steady rate, but from 1904 to 1914, the production rates of machine-made cloth nearly doubled. Document Two combined the data of handwoven and machine-made cloth, unlike in India where production doubled, we see that Japan's production of cloth (in millions of pounds) tripled in the same timeframe that India's production exploded. In document Six, we see again that there was a corresponding rapid decline in handwoven cloth. Though people still worked with their hands, the sheer amount of cloth being produced on machines …show more content…
Document Four shows us that Japanese female workers were paid more than males, and there were child laborers. From the graph in document Seven, it is evident that, as industrialization progressed in Japan, more women were employed in factories. Meanwhile, in India, the percentage of female workers declined. The information in document Eight confirms what document Seven said by showing that as industrialization advanced in Japan, more women were employed; while in India, the number of female workers gradually declined. Document Eight is biased because it's a photo taken by the company itself, not an unbiased third-party. This makes it biased because the company could have made the workplace look a lot cleaner and more appealing than what it actually
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