1. Results of the Industrial Revolution

2. Results of the Industrial Revolution
Union Movement
Factory Act
Child Labor Laws
Abolition of Slavery
Changes in Women’s rights
Changes in Education
Spread throughout the world- led to modern cities & a global economy

3. Reforms in Business Labor reforms and Union movement
-Unions speak for workers in a particular trade.
-Collective bargaining: negotiations between workers and their employers.
-If factory owners refuse the unions demands, then workers could strike (refuse to work).
-British government did not like labor unions, but tolerated them after 1825

4. Reforms in Business cont.
Factory Act (1833) & Child Labor Laws
*illegal to hire children under age 9
*9-12 years old (8 hours) and years old (12 hours)
*Children under 18 couldn’t work at night
*1842 Mines Act-children & women couldn’t work underground
*Ten Hours Act (1847)- 10 hour day for women & children

5. Social Changes Abolition of Slavery
- William Wilberforce led the fight against slavery.
-Mixed motives behind abolition: cheap labor or slave labor?
-It was abolished in Britain (1833) & United States (1865)

6. Social Changes cont.
Women abolitionists led reform movements to stop inequality of
wages & work conditions.
Education
- U.S. reformer-Horace Mann favored free public education
- set up public school systems in the 1850’s (USA) and late 1800’s (Britain)

7. Social Changes cont. Romanticism:
-A new way of thinking that focused on human feelings, emotion and imagination, love of nature
-Man’s natural place is in the country-depicted in art & literature (poetry)
-Most romantics saw the Industrial Revolution as an attack on nature & human personality
-Leader of English Romanticism was William Wordsworth

8. The Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company
I gazed-and-gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had
brought:
***Poem by William Wordsworth

9. Spread of Industrialization
People (including children) went to Britain to study the latest ideas and techniques
Belgium, Germany & France industrialized after England= railroads, inventions etc.
United States-(After Civil War) = industrial/technological boom. Started with the textile industry
Created competition between industrialized nations- colonialism/imperialism increased due to need for raw materials
Poverty increased in less developed nations= global inequality