1. Industrial Revolution
What were the first Factories like?

2. The FIRST INDUSTRY TO INDUSTRIALIZE was the
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The FIRST INDUSTRY TO INDUSTRIALIZE was the
THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY
Textiles are clothes

3. How does a ball of cotton become a shirt?
Spin it on a loom
Weave the thread into cloth
Dye the cloth
Sew the shirt

4. Cotton Ball

5. Spinning Wheel

6. Thread

7. Loom – weaves thread into cloth

8. Cloth

9. Dyeing the cloth

10. Sewing

11. Shirt

12. 1600s – Before Industrial Revolution Raw cotton
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Putting Out System
1600s – Before Industrial Revolution
Raw cotton
Given to Peasants at home
They spun and wove it

13. Putting Out System cont’d
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Putting Out System cont’d
Skilled workers then dyed the cloth
The system was called the
Putting Out System
Production was slow

14. Flying shuttle – sped up weaving Then not enough thread
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New Inventions
Flying shuttle – sped up weaving
Then not enough thread
Spinning Jenny – spun many threads at same time
Water frame – used water power to spin even more thread

15. Flying Shuttle

16. Spinning Jenny

17. Water Frame

18. New machines can’t be put in homes Need water power
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First Factories
New machines can’t be put in homes
Need water power
 Put in large sheds near a river
 Then use steam engines

19. First Factories cont’d
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First Factories cont’d
Factories – places that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods.
Putting out system is done away with.

20. Early Textile Factory

21. The Early Factories
Rigid Discipline
Harsh Conditions
Women Workers
Child Labor

22. Rigid Discipline
Very strict, all things ran on bells just like in school
12 to 16 hour days
If you are late you are fired
No bathroom breaks
Short lunch break

23. Harsh Conditions
Very unsafe: could lose a finger or an arm
Very hot and smelly
Coal dust destroyed the lungs of the miners
If you get injured you’re fired

24. Women workers
Made up much of the new work force
Preferred to men because:
they could be paid less
people thought they could be managed more easily
Still expected to care for family after a 12 –16 hour day

25. Women workers

26. The Coal mines

27. Fun!

28. Child Labor
Hired for their smallness
Used to reach inside machines and get out jams
They worked so their families could eat

29. The gang

37. A five-year-old shrimp picker
A five-year-old shrimp picker. Children in this job typically worked from 3:30 am until 5:00 pm.

39. “Breakers” sorting coal.

41. Newsies

42. Small people wanted!