1. L3: Revolutionary Changes in Social Life: Changes in the Meaning of Work Agenda Objective: To understand… 1.What working conditions were like in the factory system. 2.How these working conditions differed from what work was like under the domestic system 3.How and why working conditions became a means of controlling workers both physically, psychologically, and morally. 4.How the meaning of work changed for both workers and employers under the factory system. Schedule: 1.Discussion: Work in the Factory System Homework: 1.Read “The Emergence of the Industrial Family” for Lesson 4. See unit schedule for questions to think about. Orange = Thurs 9/4 Yellow = Thurs 9/4

2. Work in the Factory System Discussion

3. Mill Clock Many mills have a clock turned by the mill; close to another clock regulated by a pendulum, and the motion of the mill is so regular, that these two clocks will never vary more than two or three minutes. Both are made with dials and hands exactly alike, but one has a title on the dial, mill time, and the other, clock time. - The Rees Cyclopedia (1802-1820)

4. The Mill Clock Victorian clock from Pyemore Mill, near Bridport, Dorset J.M. Richards, The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings, 109 clock time mill time, as measured by waterwheel

6. The Factory As Machine Individual machines as coordinated parts of larger, continuously operating mechanism –Central power source (whether water or steam) driving all machines at coordinated rates (allude to other forms of organization made possible by small electric motors) –Inherent in factory itself and reinforced by every step of increased mechanization

7. What Happens to the Worker in A Factory Machine?