Working and Living Conditions During Industrialization Objective: Describe effects of urbanization on living and working conditions

Activity: Observe the following photographs and identify the different impacts industrialization on labor. While viewing each photograph think about the following: Who is doing the work? What are the hazards? What type of work are they doing? Would they need training? (skilled vs. unskilled) Think about these questions when you are looking at the pictures! What was it like to live during this time period?

Working Conditions- What do you see?

Every year approximately 200 miners per mine died Every year approximately 200 miners per mine died. Here is an example of a cemetery where the industry that may have put them there in the background.

A group of miners pose for a picture……. 2000 feet underground A group of miners pose for a picture……. 2000 feet underground!!!!! That is almost ½ of a mile!

3 miners waiting to use the primitive elevator to lower them into the mining shaft for a days work!

Working Conditions- What did you see? Record your findings on your worksheet!

Women and Children in the Workplace – What do you see?

How is Big Business treating its workers according to the picture?

Children stand on the machine while it is in motion!!!!

Here is a SIX year old girl working in a cotton mill

Look carefully, what is missing?

Daydreaming……. What is she thinking about?

What occupational (job) hazards can you find in this picture? A candle would be placed into his hat to provide light while working in the mines! What occupational (job) hazards can you find in this picture?

The taller boy standing to the right oversees the breaker boys who separate the coal from the stones during mining. The machine used is moving quickly and they are not allowed to wear gloves! Why might this be dangerous?

Women in the Workplace

Mom and children working together in the seafood industry!

Women sewing in a garment factory.

Women canning fruits in order to preserve them!

Women and Children in the Workplace – What did you see? Record your findings on your worksheet

Assembly Line- What do you see?

A computer generated model of the conveyor line used to move products past workers so that they could do the same job over and over again.

Workers put spokes on the wheels of a future car.

Finished Product!- A car roles off of the end of an assembly line!

Assembly Line- What did you see? Record your findings on your worksheet

Urbanization, Growth of Cities and Living Conditions- What do you see?

Tenement- House Slums- very crowded housing for workers and families during industrialization. Cities were covered with this kind of housing!

Inside a tenement house!

Another view of a tenement housing complex!

STOP!!! Directions: Now look at your observations about how industrialization impacted labor and using an example (evidence) from each category answer the question below on your worksheet: EQ: How did Industrialization impact labor in the United States?

NEXT STEPS! ON YOUR WORKSHEET PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING: Diary Entry: Please write a diary from the perspective of a child, women, or man during Industrial revolution. Using the observations from the PowerPoint explain the events, dangers, and how it would be to live during the turn of the 20th century.