Toward an Industrial Society

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Toward an Industrial Society
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Industrialization

• Great Britain- occurred in concentrated areas.
• Continental Europe- countryside.
• Population skyrocketed.

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What problems did this create?

• Inadequate water, sewer, food supplies, lighting.
• Crime increased.
• Slums grew- cholera epidemic.

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Problems countryside

• Serfs freed in Prussia, Austria, Russia
• Irish Potato famine- 1 million starve!
• Forced migration to the cities.

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Proletarianization

• Artisans and factory workers came to participate
  in a wage-labor force, getting paid for their
  work, rather than their product.

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Discipline ran factory life.

• Factory doors locked.
• Fines for lateness.
• Dismissal for drunkenness, hangovers.
• Public scoldings
• Workers had little say in product quality.

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The Machines

• Hurt artisans, craftsworkers.
• Confection- goods were produced in standard sizes
  rather than special orders by customers.
• Unskilled artisans willing to work for far less
  money.

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The Emergence of Chartism

• London radical artisans. (William Lovett)
• Demanded political reform and change in Britain.
• Parliament refused their demands.
• The Northern Star- newspaper
• Feargus OConnor- leader, speaker.
• 1st large-scale European working class political
  movement.

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Classwork Read 695-697

• Create a list of changes created by
  industrialization (minimum 5), with particular
  emphasis on family structure and children.