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Impacts of Industrial Revolution( Continued). 1. Working Conditions  Average worker worked 14 hours, 6 days a week  Factories seldom clean or well lit.

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1 Impacts of Industrial Revolution( Continued)

2 1. Working Conditions  Average worker worked 14 hours, 6 days a week  Factories seldom clean or well lit  A) Countless ways to be injured and no government program to help if injured B) Men compete with women and children for wages

3 Stereotype of the Factory Owner

4 Children at work C) Often joined at age 6  Only given 40 minute break during a 12-14 work day  Often beat so they would stay awake  Often injured and sick from lungs breathing in unclean air

5 Compare your daily routine with that of a factory girl working in Lancashire 1820. How are they different?

6 Child Labor

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8 Child Labor!!

9 2. Impact on Slavery  Britain outlaws slave trade in 1807 A) Britain outlaws slavery in 1833 (First to do so)  U.S. in 1865  Puerto Rico-1873  Cuba-1886  Brazil-1888

10 3. Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution A) Women and children to leave home to enter workforce B) Introduction of reforms to end child labor

11 C) Following abolition movement, women push for suffrage (1848)

12 Family as a Unit of Consumption   In short, the European family changed from being a unit of production and consumption to being a unit of consumption alone.

13 Pollution to the skies!!!

14 4. Rise of Labor Unions A) Encouraged worker-organized strikes to increase wages and improve working conditions B) Lobbied for laws to improve the lives of workers, including women and children C) Wanted worker rights and collective bargaining between labor and management

15 1819 Factory Act   No children under 9 to work in factories. Children from 9 to 16 allowed to work a maximum of 72 hours per week with one and a half hours a day for meals.

16 1833 Althorp`s Factory Act   Children from 9 to 13 to work a maximum of 42 hours per week; also children aged 13 to 16 to work a maximum of 69 hours a week. No night work for anybody under the age of 18.

17 1842 Mines and Collieries Act   Banned all women and children under 10 from working underground. No-one under 15 years was to work winding gear in mines.

18 1844 Graham`s Factory Act   Minimum age for working in factories reduced to 8 years old. 8 to 13 years old to work a maximum of six and a half hours a day. 13 to 18 year olds to work a maximum of 12 hours a day and the same applied to women. Safety guards had to be fitted to all machines.

19 1847 Fielder`s Factory Act   10 hour day introduced for under 18's and for women.

20 Union ex  American Federation of Labor (AFL) wins higher wages

21 Understanding #1  Agricultural economies were based on the family unit. The Industrial Revolution had a significant impact on the structure and function of the family.

22 Understanding #2  The Industrial Revolution placed new demands on the labor of men, women, and children. Workers organized labor unions to fight for improved working conditions and workers’ rights.

23 Pre-Quiz  1. City building and the movement of people to cities was referred to as ________.  2. What were many of the working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution?

24   3. Men competed with _______ and _______ for work.  Women and children to leave home to enter ___________.  4. Women and children to leave home to enter ___________.  5. Which country outlawed slavery first because of the Industrial Revolution

25 6. Because of the Industrial Revolution, ________ _________ were formed to improve wages, working conditions, and worker rights. 7. The Industrial Revolution began in ______ __________. 8. What revolution paved the way for the Industrial Revolution.

26   9. Who invents the Cotton Gin?   10. Who invents the Bessemer process for making steel?   11. Which does not belong in Impacts of Industrial Revolution?  UrbanizationChild labor laws  A) Urbanization, B) Child labor laws  Population decrease, D) Factory System  C) Population decrease, D) Factory System

27   12. Who invents the Steam Engine that changes the factory system.   13.. Who was the author of “The Wealth of Nations”?   14. It stated that the government should not ______ with the economy.   15. Karl Marx authored The _________ _________.

28 16. Name two theories that opposed capitalism   17. Socialism was a philosophy that responded to the ___________ or wrong doings of capitalism.  socialism in which the means of production of would controlled by the people.  18. The form of socialism in which the means of production of would controlled by the people.

29   19. Capitalism and market competition fueled the ________ ___________.   20. ________ is an economic philosophy that uses the principles of laissez-faire.


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