1. Responses to the Industrial Revolution

2. FACTORY SYSTEM PROBLEM Working conditions in factories and coal mines were dangerous and unhealthy

3. FACTORY SYSTEM RESPONSE Utopianism – trying to create the perfect society Laws established to protect workers

4. FACTORY SYSTEM EXAMPLES/PEOPLE – Robert Owen Utopian community in the town of New Lanark

5. URBANIZATION PROBLEM Cities were crowded, dangerous, and unhealthy

6. URBANIZATION RESPONSE Cities cleaned up Water supply cleaned Food made safer Soup kitchens established Police forces formed

7. URBANIZATION EXAMPLES/PEOPLE Public Health Act of 1875 London’s Metropolitan Police Force established in 1829

8. CLASS STRUCTURE PROBLEM Capitalism = Unequal distribution of wealth Exploitation of workers

9. CLASS STRUCTURE RESPONSES Workingmen’s Association created Socialist political parties created

10. CLASS STRUCTURE EXAMPLES/PEOPLE Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – Communist Manifesto Great Britain’s Labour Party

11. CHILD LABOR PROBLEM Children worked long hours in poor and dangerous conditions in the factory

12. CHILD LABOR RESPONSE Working hours limited by acts of Parliament Children sent to schools

13. CHILD LABOR EXAMPLES/PEOPLE REFORM ACT OF 1832 Also gave voting rights to workers ALTHORP’S ACT OF 1833 FACTORY ACT OF 1842

14. WORKERS’ RIGHTS PROBLEM Wages were low No medical insurance or pensions Conditions were bad

15. WORKERS’ RIGHTS RESPONSE Labor unions created General strikes by all workers Laws for workers’ rights

16. WORKERS’ RIGHTS EXAMPLES/PEOPLE 1824 – LABOR UNIONS ALLOWED TO EXIST IN GREAT BRITAIN