1. EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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

3. 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

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

5. 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)

6. Promotes colonization

7. 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

8. 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.

9. UPPER MIDDLE CLASS LOWER MIDDLE CLASS WORKING CLASS
Upper Class
UPPER MIDDLE CLASS
LOWER MIDDLE CLASS
WORKING CLASS