Industrial Revolution Life in English Factories World Warm Up, December 12, 2013 From what you’ve studied so far, what did NOT exist at the beginning of “Industrialization” that does exist now? DOK: 3-4; S.1; Learning Target: I can use evidence from several primary sources to defend my claim.

22 English Factory System First adopted in England in the 1750s, as a method for manufacturing Involved mass producing goods by machines usually run by water or steam Featured low and unskilled workers running machines, or moving materials Lowered costs of goods Power Looms in English Cotton Mill (circa 1830) DOK: 3-4; S.1; Learning Target: I can use evidence from several primary sources to defend my claim.

33 Factory Reform Legislation Between 1800 and 1850, Parliament passed a series of laws to regulate factory work. Many of these laws focused on protecting children working in factories, and set limits on the amount of hours that children could work in factories. The Factory Act of 1850, for example, limited the weekly hours that children could work to 60 and daily hours to Political Cartoon: “English Factory Slaves.” Robert Cruikshank DOK: 3-4; S.1; Learning Target: I can use evidence from several primary sources to defend my claim.

44 Factory Reform Legislation DOK: 3-4; S.1; Learning Target: I can use evidence from several primary sources to defend my claim. Throughout this period, several commissions investigated working conditions in factories. Politicians, academics, doctors, and other public figures wrote books, pamphlets, speeches, and newspaper articles in support of or against regulating the country’s growing factory system.

Were textile factories bad for the health of English workers? ~Review process ~Doc. A together ~The rest with a partner using Guiding Questions ~Final Claim (Argument based on Evidence) ~Mini-Thrash Out DBQ style? DOK: 3-4; S.1; Learning Target: I can use evidence from several primary sources to defend my claim. Essential Question