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1 Warm Up: How did natural resources and new means of transportation affect the growth of industry?

2 Time For A Crash Course The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of the times

3  Industrialization: a shift from an agricultural (farming) economy to one based on industry (manufacturing)  Effect on Economy

4  Before ▪ 80% of world’s population engaged in farming  After

5  Cause  Effect

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7  Goals:

8 The “HAVES” Bourgeois Life Thrived on the Luxuries of the Industrial Revolution The “HAVE-NOTS” The Poor, The Over-Worked, and the Destitute

9  Increased world productivity  Growth of railroads (faster and more efficient transportation of goods and people)  New entrepreneurs emerged (more money = more technology/inventions)  New inventions improved quality of life for many  Labor eventually organized (unions) to improve working conditions  Laws were enacted to enforce health and safety codes in cities and factories  New opportunities for women  Rise of the middle class – size, power, and wealth expanded  Social structure becomes more flexible  A global economy began to emerge (trade)

10  FACTORY  Child labor  Miserable (dirty, cramped) and dangerous (fingers, limbs, & lives lost) working conditions  Long working hours – six days a week, with little pay  Diseases such as pneumonia & tuberculosis spread through factories  Strikes  Cities  Tenement housing was poorly constructed, crowded, and cold

11  Increase in population of cities  Women and children enter the workplace as cheap labor  Rise of labor unions  Introduction of reforms  Laws to protect children in the workplace  Minimum wage and maximum hour laws  Federal safety and health standards  Growth of the middle class  Increased production and higher demand for raw materials = growth of worldwide trade  Expansion of education  Women’s increased demands for suffrage OBJECTIVE: SWBAT identify the social and economic impact of the Industrial Revolution through evaluating sources and completing a graphic organizer. STANDARDS:H.3.b; H.2.d; E.1.a

12  Economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for a private profit  Free-market economy: decisions regarding supply, demand, price, distribution, and investments are made by private actors  Profit goes to owners who invest in the business  Wages are paid to workers employed by companies and businesses

13 × People as a society would operate and own the means of production, not individuals × Their goal was a society that benefited everyone, not just a rich, well-connected few × Tried to build perfect communities [utopias]

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