1. Guided Reading Industrialization Case Study: Manchester

2. What changes did industrialization bring about for the following groups of people?
Poor city dwellers
No plans, sanitary codes or building regulations to controlled the rampant growth of English cities.
The poor lacked adequate housing
Many were forced to live in dark, filthy, overcrowded slums
Very unhealthy and unsafe conditions

3. What changes did industrialization bring about for the following groups of people?
Factory Workers
Factory owners wanted to keep their machines running for as many hours a day as possible.
Workers were forced to work long hours
Starvation wages,
Often dangerous and unhealthy conditions
Later, working conditions and the standards of living improved = laws were passed

4. What changes did industrialization bring about for the following groups of people?
Wealthy merchants, factory owners, shippers
Gained wealth and status in society
Joined a growing middle class of skilled workers, professionals, business people and well-to-do farmers.

5. What changes did industrialization bring about for the following groups of people?
Children
As young as six began to work in factories with their families
Long hours
Brutal conditions
Child labor laws later brought some reforms

6. What changes did industrialization bring about for the following groups of people?
Lower middle class of factory overseers and skilled workers
Enjoyed a comfortable standard of living

7. What changes did industrialization bring about for the following groups of people?
Large landowners and aristocrats
Lost some status, respect and power because of the success of factory owners, etc
Continued to look down on those who gained wealth in business.

8. What were the long-term consequences of the Industrial Revolution?
The environment
Pollution
Natural resources were depleted

9. What were the long-term consequences of the Industrial Revolution?
Education
Opportunities expanded in response to a need for skilled and professional workers
Not for factory workers ( i.e. poor, working children)