Speaker’s Corner Responses to the Industrial Revolution

Speaker’s Corner Day 1 Essential Question: How did people deal with the changes brought about by the industrial revolution? What changes did they fight for? Objective: To understand the variety of political and social responses to the Industrial Revolution

Tuesday, 11/27/15 Agenda: 1.John Green: Industrial Revolution 2.Responses to the Industrial Revolution presentation 3.Speaker’s Corner document analysis 4.Speeches prep Homework: DUE Thursday, 10/29: Document notes and Speech or article DUE Monday, 11/2: Read/take notes: Glencoe Ch.13.1: The Growth of Industrial Prosperity A Day Withouth Industry Journal Entry

John Green: Industrial Revolution As you watch the video, take notes on the main ideas on your graphic organizer minutes

Speaker’s Corner A little background

An era of industrial capitalism Capitalism: An economic system in which private individuals (capitalists) own the means of production and operate them in order to make a profit. In industrial capitalism, capitalists use the power of industry (machines run on fossil fuels, the factory system) to produce goods on a much greater scale and make much greater profits than are possible in pre-industrial (commercial) capitalism.

The Industrial Revolution and Labor Industrial Working Class: Work hours ranged from hours/day, 6 days/week No security of employment, no minimum wage, dirty/dangerous conditions William Bell Scott, Iron and Coal, Robert Owen coined this phrase.

The Industrial Revolution and Labor Industrial Middle Class: Created from industrial capitalism, an economic system based on industrial production “Bourgeois” middle class: built factories, bought machines, and developed markets

Responses to the Industrial Revolution Capitalists American financier J.P. Morgan Reformers American educator and orator Booker T. Washington Radicals Mother Jones, American labor organizer and co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World

Reform Movements Suffrage movements Aimed at obtaining the vote for working men; gradually achieved after 1850 (Chartists) Another movement sought votes for women; gradually achieved from 1918 to 1928 Trade Unions (labor unions) Factory workers joined for better wages and working conditions from the 1850s onward. They won the right to strike in Moderate socialists Began to challenge assumptions of a capitalist society Believed workers should fight for reforms within the democratic system

Radical Movements Socialism of Karl Marx ( ): The Communist Manifesto World history = a history of class struggle The current class struggle was between: - bourgeoisie: the owners of the means of production (oppressors) - proletariat: the working class (oppressed) Industrialization created both the social conditions that demanded change, as well as the economic wealth that would make socialism possible. Capitalism could only be defeated by violent revolution. Within the laws of historical change, revolution was a certainty and the socialist future inevitable.

Social Protest: Back to Moderate (late 1800s) Social Democracy: advocated a reformist program and a peaceful democratic transition to socialism Improved conditions of the middle class (30% of pop) Wages increased, cheap imported foods improved diets, infant mortality rates fell, men gained right to vote improving legislation for child labor laws and regulating factory conditions. Growing sense of nationalism During WWI, “workers of the world” fought each other rather than unite against their bourgeois enemies as Marx had urged.

What is a Speaker’s Corner? A Speaker’s Corner is an area where open-air public speaking, debate and discussions are allowed. The original and most famous is in Hyde Park, London. During the Industrial Revolution, massive demonstrations and public protests about politics and working conditions were held at Hyde Park.

Speakers’ corner roles

Is your character a…. capitalist? LET THE SYSTEM RUN ITSELF! reformer? IMPROVE THE SYSTEM! radical? THROW OUT THE SYSTEM!

Speaker’s Corner Prep Decide if your character is a capitalist, reformer or radical. Sit w/ people of your political tendency (undecided make smaller groups). Compare notes on DBQ documents. SpeakersJournalists Read Speaker Facts to Know. Review notes with partner. Write speech. Make slogans/placards ●Create interview questions. ●Interview a capitalist, reformist and radical. ●Start writing draft of article.