Impacts of Industrial Revolution

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Impacts of Industrial Revolution
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Rise of factory system

• Urbanization-city building and the movement of
  people to cities
• Family-based cottage industries displaced by the
  factory system
• Makes impacts of family unit

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The Factory System

• Rigid schedule.
• 12-14 hour day.
• Dangerous conditions.
• Mind-numbing monotony.

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Urbanization
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Family crowded into small apartment
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Factories
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Working Conditions

• Average worker worked 14 hours, 6 days a week
• Factories seldom clean or well lit
• Countless ways to be injured and no government
  program to help if injured
• Men compete with women and children for wages

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Stereotype of the Factory Owner
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Children at work

• Often joined at age 6
• Only given 40 minute break during a 12-14 work
  day
• Often beat so they would stay awake
• Often injured and sick from lungs breathing in
  unclean air

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Compare your daily routine with that of a factory
girl working in Lancashire 1820. How are they
different?
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Child Labor
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Child Labor
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Child Labor!!
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Impact on Slavery

• Britain outlaws slave trade in 1807
• Britain outlaws slavery in 1833
• U.S. in 1865
• Puerto Rico-1873
• Cuba-1886
• Brazil-1888

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Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution

• A) Women and children to leave home to enter
  workforce
• B) Introduction of reforms to end child labor
• C) Following abolition movement, women push for
  suffrage (1848)
• D) Reforms in public education and prisons(public
  schools in 1850s)

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Pollution to the skies!!!
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Rise of Labor Unions

• A) Encouraged worker-organized strikes to
  increase wages and improve working conditions
• B) Lobbied for laws to improve the lives of
  workers, including women and children
• C) Wanted worker rights and collective bargaining
  between labor and management

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1819 Factory Act

• No children under 9 to work in factories.
  Children from 9 to 16 allowed to work a maximum
  of 72 hours per week with one and a half hours a
  day for meals.

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1833 Althorps Factory Act

• Children from 9 to 13 to work a maximum of 42
  hours per week also children aged 13 to 16 to
  work a maximum of 69 hours a week. No night work
  for anybody under the age of 18.

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1842 Mines and Collieries Act

• Banned all women and children under 10 from
  working underground. No-one under 15 years was to
  work winding gear in mines.

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1844 Grahams Factory Act

• Minimum age for working in factories reduced to 8
  years old. 8 to 13 years old to work a maximum of
  six and a half hours a day. 13 to 18 year olds to
  work a maximum of 12 hours a day and the same
  applied to women. Safety guards had to be fitted
  to all machines.

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1847 Fielders Factory Act

• 10 hour day introduced for under 18's and for
  women.

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Union ex

• American Federation of Labor (AFL) wins higher
  wages

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Understanding 1

• Agricultural economies were based on the family
  unit. The Industrial Revolution had a
  significant impact on the structure and function
  of the family.

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Understanding 2

• The Industrial Revolution placed new demands on
  the labor of men, women, and children. Workers
  organized labor unions to fight for improved
  working conditions and workers rights.

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Pre-Quiz

• 1. City building and the movement of people to
  cities was referred to as ________.
• 2. What were many of the working conditions like
  during the Industrial Revolution?

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• 3. Men competed with _______ and _______ for
  work.
• 4. Women and children to leave home to enter
  ___________.
• 5. Which country outlawed slavery first because
  of the Industrial Revolution

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• 6. Because of the Industrial Revolution, ________
  _________ were formed to improve wages, working
  conditions, and worker rights.
• 7. The Industrial Revolution began in ______
  __________.
• 8. What revolution paved the way for the
  Industrial Revolution.

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• 9. Who invents the Cotton Gin?
• 10. Who invents the Bessemer process for making
  steel?
• 11. Which does not belong in Impacts of
  Industrial Revolution?
• A) Urbanization, B) Child labor laws
• C) Population decrease, D) Factory System

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• 12. Who invents the Steam Engine that changes the
  factory system.
• 13. . Who was the author of The Wealth of
  Nations?
• 14. It stated that the government should not
  ______ with the economy.
• 15. Karl Marx authored The _________ _________.

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• 16. Name two theories that opposed capitalism
• 17. Socialism was a philosophy that responded to
  the ___________ or wrong doings of capitalism.
• 18. The form of socialism in which the means of
  production of would controlled by the people.

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• 19. Capitalism and market competition fueled the
  ________ ___________.
• 20. ________ is an economic philosophy that uses
  the principles of laissez-faire.