1. Textile Industry Spinning Jenny Water Frame Spinning Mule
Flying Shuttle

2. Textiles

3. Industrial Revolution
“Bourgeoisie” –
“Middle Class” & jobs …
Proletariat –
“Working Class” & jobs …

4. Industrial Revolution
Rise in Urbanization and Industrialization!!
Rise in Social Class Tensions!!
Urban poor
Prostitution

5. Industrial Revolution
“Standard of Living” – Refers to the level of material goods available to people in a society.
Example …

6. Working Conditions for Children
“Sadler Report” – Michael Sadler headed a commission to investigate conditions
“1833 Law” – forbade the hiring of children under nine and limited hours

7. Cosette

8. Cosette

9. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo “The barricades” (1832)

10. Karl Marx History of the world is the “history of class struggle.”
Advocated “communism”

11. Poem: “This World is Too Much With Us”
William Wordsworth
Poem: “This World is Too Much With Us”
“Romanticism” …
Emphasized imagination, emotion, freedom, nature, etc.
Writers
Lord Byron, William Blake
Johann Goethe, Victor Hugo, Charlotte Bronte, Alexander Dumas
Composers
Beethoven, Chopin, Dvorak

12. Les Miserables
“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.” - Victor Hugo, 1862
Jean Valjean
Javert
Fantine
Cosette
Bishop Myriel

13. Charles Darwin
Idea of “Natural Selection”
“Survival of the Fittest”

15. Loved “Social Darwinism”

16. Social Darwinism & the European Takeover of Africa!!!

17. Imperialism
The economic and political domination of a stronger nation or people over a weaker one

18. - Berlin Conference, Divided up Africa into “spheres of influence” - Committed to “free trade” - Committed to end slavery in Africa

19. Africa, 1912, based upon 1884-85 Conference

20. Eugenics False science of racial identity based on physical features
Eugenics False science of racial identity based on physical features. Jews were considered racially inferior to “Aryans.”