1. 11/3 - Focus
The Industrial Revolution brought many changes to the way people lived. New class structures developed with the rise of the middle class. Urbanization saw many moving the country to the city. Many of the working class lived under terrible conditions. Points for Discussion: Explain how industrialization led to the growth of the middle class. Critical Lens: The Middle Class is essential to a strong economy. Term to Know: Essential

2. Impacts of Industrial Revolution

3. Impacts of Industrial Revolution
New means of transportation and growing international trade makes nations more interdependent

4. Impacts of Industrial Revolution
Middle Class begins to grow
Cities begin to grow
Suburbs begin to grow

5. Impacts of Industrial Revolution
Horrible working conditions for working class

6. Impacts of Industrial Revolution
Long hours for working class – 12 – 16 hour days

7. Impacts of Industrial Revolution
Rise in Child Labor

8. Industrial Revolution
Child Labor

9. Impacts of Industrial Revolutions
Dangerous working conditions with no compensation if injured

10. Impacts of Industrial Revolution
Pollution and Slums

11. Impacts of the Industrial Revolution
Industry went unchecked by governments
(liaise-faire economics)

12. . . . The factory owners did not have the power to
compel anybody to take a factory job. They could
only hire people who were ready to work for the
wages offered to them. Low as these wage rates
were, they were nonetheless much more than
these paupers could earn in any other field open
to them. It is a distortion of facts to say that the
factories carried off the housewives from the
nurseries and the kitchens and the children from
their play. These women had nothing to cook
with and [nothing] to feed their children. These
children were destitute [poor] and starving.
Their only refuge was the factory. It saved them,
in the strict sense of the term, from death by
starvation
- Explain the meaning of this passage

13. Closure
In your opinion, explain whether you believe the positive impacts of the Industrial Revolution outweigh the negative impacts. Should the government have stepped in to make sure work places were safe? (Minimum one paragraph)