Industrialized Society

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Industrialized Society

• Urbanization a NEW way to live

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Life before steam
Steam power changed the way we lived worked
forever
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Industrialization Changes Society

• Living in cities vs. countryside
• Created a new family structure
• Introduced new class tensions
• Workers, middle class upper class conflict
• Initially, led to large scale human suffering
• Working conditions are very poor

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Urbanization

• Population grew quickly in cities
• Most European cities at least doubled in
  population
• Factories were built in clusters
• Led to concentrated areas CITIES

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Living Conditions

• Economic growth was not regulated
• No sanitary codes, no building codes, etc..
• Cities lacked enough police, schools, and housing

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Crowded, dark dirty city living
Sanitary conditions were poor
Disease spread easily
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Sickness Spread

• Cholera spread quickly in cities
• Average life span

Rural areas 38-years
Cities/Working class 17-Years
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Great Britain had MORE people living in cities
than in the countryside!
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Poor Working Conditions

• Owners wanted machines to run as long as possible
• Average worker 14 hour days 6-days week
• Factories were dark, dirty dangerous
• Children often worked

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Sir Edwin Chadwick Reading

• Inquiry into the Condition of the Poor (1842)

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Women mostly found jobs in domestic service,
textile factories, and piece work shops. They
also worked in the coal mines. For some, the
Industrial Revolution provided independent wages,
mobility and a better standard of living. For the
majority, however, factory work in the early
years of the 19th century resulted in a life of
hardship.
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Family Structure

• Children used to work on farm
• Now families often split up during the work day
• Over time, public schools did develop children
  worked less

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Class Tensions Rise

• Factory owners merchants built large houses in
  suburbs
• A middle class developed
• Working class suffered through terrible
  conditions
• 1812 workers rebel. Luddites attack factories in
  Northern England
• Reforms are slowly won

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Industrial Revolution Analysis

• In separate columns, list the benefits and costs
  of the Industrial Revolution
• Benefits
  Costs

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Positive Effects of Industrialization

• Created jobs for workers
• Built wealth for a nation
• increased production
• slowly raised standard of living

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Pakistan
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Pakistan

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