<P> The transition to industrialisation was not without difficulty . For example, a group of English workers known as Luddites formed to protest against industrialisation and sometimes sabotaged factories . They continued an already established tradition of workers opposing labor saving machinery . Numerous inventors in the textile industry such as John Kay and Samuel Crompton, suffered harassment when developing their machines or devices . </P> <P> In other industries the transition to factory production was not so divisive . </P> <P> Until the late 19th century it was common to work 12 hours a day, six days a week in most factories; however long hours were also common outside factories . </P> <P> Debate arose concerning the morality of the system, as workers complained about unfair working conditions prior to the passage of labour laws . One of the problems concerned women's labour, which in many cases women were paid almost a quarter of what men made . Child labour was also a major part of the system, and was vehemently argued by those who deemed it immoral . However, in the early 19th century, education was not compulsory and in many families having children work was necessary due to low incomes (Samuel Slater employed children but was required to provide basic education). Children commonly did farm labor and produced goods for the household . Besides working in factories children worked in mines . Automation in the late 19th century is credited with displacing child labor, with the automatic glass bottle blowing machine (ca . 1890) cited as an example, having been said to do more to end child labor than child labor laws . Years of schooling began to increase sharply from the end of the 19th century . </P>

Which provided the first source of power for factory machines during the industrial revolution