The Industrial Revolution's Nastiest Jobs
Matt Burgess
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I found that I disliked the dirty jobs the most, then the dangerous ones and the tiring jobs last of all. I think I disliked the dirty ones the most because some of the things you had to do were disgusting but also because they were also dangerous because you could catch a disease of some sort in the sewers or in the Thames. The dangerous one I didn’t think as bad but I didn’t like the idea of a powder monkey because it would be very easy to die as a powder monkey because one spark could blow you sky high. The rest I thought were manageable of the dangerous group. I found the tiring group the best of all because none of them were all that dangerous or disgusting just physically tiring and straining. The only one that I would really dislike would be the chimney sweep because you only had a short career and there was the danger in the job because you could get stuck in the chimney, broken body parts and/or lung cancer.
Tosher
Fishing out goodies from the sewer like coins and nails.
Mudlark
Searching The River Thames for items to sell.
Powder-Monkey
Carrying gunpowder up to the deck of a ship to load the cannons during a battle against the French.
Chimney-Sweep
Sweeping chimneys of the ashes from fires.
Tanner
You strip the skin of animals and cleaning them to make leather.
Rat-Catcher
Catching rats and then selling them to the landlord.
Cat-Killer
Going around in the middle of the night trying to catch wild dogs and cats and then killing them.
Navvy
Your job is to push wheelbarrows full of stones to help build the railroads.
Stonebreaker
Breaking Stones for roads and other stones are needed for.
