CONSEQUENCE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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CONSEQUENCE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Consequences

• Rural to Urban (by 1900, 1/3 of people in
  industrial nations lived in cities
• Growth of the middle class
• Women working outside the home for wages
  increases
• Huge variety of goods produced more cheaply
  affordable to more people

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Reform Movements

• Labor Unions by 1900 regulate factories for
  safer conditions, shorter hours, and better pay
• City Services by 1900, life in cities improve
  Sewage systems, police forces, building codes,
  hospitals
• Education-Free education for children in all
  industrialized nations

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Womens Rights

• Feminism the movement for womens rights
• Women fight and win rights to property,
  education, and enter professions and occupations
  dominated by men ie medicine, law, politics
• Suffrage (vote) key to gaining equal rights.
  Suffragettes protest to gain attention police
  answer with arrests and brutal treatment
• (Iron Jawed Women)

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Socialism

• Reformers blame capitalism for destroying lives
• Advocate Socialism and economic system in which
  society (government) owns and controls the means
  of production (factories, utilities)
• Public ownership of the means of production allow
  wealth to be distributed more equally to all.
• Progress results when producers cooperate for the
  good of all (instead of competition)
• Goods should be distributed according to
  production effort and need

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Growth of Democracy

• Franchise/suffrage the right to vote Extended
  to most men and later to women (1918 in Britain
  1920 in U.S.)

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Communism

• Karl Marx writes The Communist Manifesto
  workers (Proletariat) would unite and violently
  overthrow the capitalists (bourgeoisie). A
  dictatorship of the proletariat would abolish
  capitalism and create a socialist economy when
  the economy stabilized, a classless society would
  emerge.

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Growth of Democracy

• Franchise/suffrage the right to vote Extended
  to most men and later to women (1918 in Britain
  1920 in U.S.)

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Education

• Industrial jobs require higher education
• Voting requires an educated citizenry
• Compulsory education demand for teachers
  (women)
• Literacy expands mass media develops
  newspapers for reading public

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IMPERIALISM

• Increased need for even more NATURAL RESOURSES
  RAW MATERIALS for Industry lead strong industrial
  nations to exploit weak nations for their
  resources and location