1. AP EURO Unit #5 – Nationalism of 19th Century Lesson #507 Worker Conditions
2m descr of child labor

2. Working Conditions Kids worked ridiculously long hours
13-14 hours a day, 6 days a week
Brutal discipline
Mostly poor, illiterate
Many orphans from foundling hospitals
What should be done? Why?
Read PS#1 and PS#2
Medical Examiners (p. 237 in Sherman book)
John Write (p. 238 in Sherman book)

3. Early Legislation Factory Act of 1833 Mines Act of 1842
Age 9-13 (8 hours/day)
Under 9 – had to go to factory run elementary schools
WHAT WAS THE RESULT TO FAMILIES?
CAN YOU SEE WHY THIS WILL SPLIT FAMILIES?
Mines Act of 1842
Problem: girls with no shirts
This act prohibited women from mines
Also pulled out boys under 10
YOUR THOUGHTS?

4. British leadership during Ind Rev
Great Expedition of 1851 (London)
The Crystal Palace
Population growth” 9 million to 21 million during era
What are the implications?
GNP growth 400%
What will this mean?

5. The Dismal Science Early economics Thomas Malthus David Ricardo
Essay on the Principle of Population (1789)
Population will increase faster than food supply
The poor will always be poor
No use helping – will be of no use
In fact – they will become dependent and weak
David Ricardo
Iron Law of Wages
Wages will always sink to subsistence levels

6. “The power of population is infinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsidence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometric ratio. Subsistence [food] only increases in an arithmetic ratio. A slight acquaintance with the numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison to the second.”
Thomas Malthus

7. Other nations Britain pulled ahead of other nations by 1800
Britain SHOT ahead in next 50 years
By 1860 – Britain out-produced next three Euro nations combined
France
Gradual growth
Germany (Prussian unified state) and USA
Quickly catching up by late 1800s
Causes?
US Civil War & German Unification
German Zollveriegn (1834)
6. Belgium – new nation in 1830