EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

POSITIVE EFFECTS Raised standard of living Better housing Heated homes with coal Better diets Better made clothes Increased production of goods

Fostered technology progress and inventions Wealth to nations Created jobs Engineers, clerical, etc. More business opportunities Fostered technology progress and inventions Wealth to nations Strengthened economic ties between countries through trade

Promotes competition Factory Act of 1819 Restricted working age and hours Higher wages Better working conditions

NEGATIVE EFFECTS Widened gap between industrial and non-industrial countries (the haves and have nots) Increased poverty in less developed countries Shifts world balance of power (i.e., Germany strengthens government and develops military power)

Promotes colonization

CHILD LABOR IN THE 1990s To save on labor costs in the 1990s, many corporations moved their manufacturing operations overseas to poor countries. In sweatshops in these developing countries, young children work long hours under wretched conditions. They are unprotected by child labor laws. For mere pennies per hour, children sort sort

Vegetables, stitch soccer balls, and assemble expensive basketball shoes In the United States each year $178 billion worth of clothing is sold. Some studies estimate more than half of that clothing is manufactured in foreign sweatshops where children work. Like the children who toiled in Manchester’s factories in the 1800s, children still labor to help support their families.

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