1. The Industrial Revolution in Britain was in a large part inspired by?:
A) the urgent need to solve great urban poverty.
B) the failure of the cottage industry systems
C) entrepreneurs who sought and accepted new manufacturing methods and inventions.
D) the great industrial success of the century before in Holland and France.
E) kings who controlled patents for new inventions.

2. Resistance to Industrial Conditions

3. Resistance to Industrial Conditions
-Luddites - workers threatened by industrialism who attacked factories and machines
-Violent!!!

4. Union Movement
-Proletariat class attempting to resist exploitation
-Results in the Combination Acts

5. Acts (1799)
-Ban unions
-Reaction to French Rev.
-Repealed in 1824
-Robert Owen - Organizes Nat’l Consolidated Trade Union - discipline and rights for workers

6. Owen leads to...
-Chartists, who lead a campaign for 10 hr day and cheaper bread (import)
-Unions lead to better working conditions

7. Working conditions...

8. -Factory work = impersonal
-Child labor is exploitative, abandoned children work
-In reality, kids were working in cottage system too

9. -Sadler Committee- gov’t org. to investigate conditions
-Factory Act (1833) - Limits workday for children (8), 12 hrs for teens
-Mines Act of prohibits this