Hardships of Early Industrial Life

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Hardships of Early Industrial Life
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Warm-up

• Based on the exercise we did in class yesterday,
  what are some of the hardships of industrial life?

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The New Industrial City

• Capitalism- means of production are privately
  owned and operated for profit
• Urbanization- Movement of people to cities
• Changes in farming, population growth demand
  for workers led people to cities
• Tenements- Multistory buildings divided into
  crowded apartments.
• No running water, no sanitation system
• Disease spread rapidly

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The Factory System

• Workers faced rigid schedule
• Shifts lasted from 12-16 hours
• Workers suffered accidents from machines
• Breathed in coal dust lint-filled air
• Workers sick or injured lost their jobs

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Women and Child Labor

• Women Workers
• Employers preferred to hire women easier to
  manage, could pay them less for same work
• Work 12 hours days, come home to tenement take
  care of family
• Child Labor
• Nimble-fingered quick moving
• Wages needed to keep families from starving

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The Working Class

• Protests
• Smashed machines and burned factories
• Luddite Rioter protesting the machines
• Workers forbidden to organize in groups strikes
  were outlawed

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The New Middle Class

• Merchants, inventors, skilled artisans
• Lived in solid, well-furnished homes
• Men gained influence in Parliament
• Women encouraged to become ladies who provided
  a happy, well-furnished home for their husbands

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Benefits and Problems

• Problems
• Low pay, unemployment, dismal living conditions
• Reformers pressed for laws to improve working
  conditions
• Labor Unions- Workers organizations won the
  right to bargain w/ employers for better wages,
  hours working conditions

• Benefits
• Factories created more jobs
• Wages rose
• Cost of railroad travel decreased, people could
  visit families
• Opportunity increased

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Industrial Revolution

• Choose one of the following
• Miner
• Factory Worker
• Child Laborer
• Working Class Mother
• Factory Owner
• Middle Class Woman
• Luddite
• Write about the Industrial Revolution from their
  perspective (daily life, negative positive
  aspects)
• Use pages 505-509 in your book if you need more
  info
• Should take up about a page in your spiral ?