Transcript Industrialism - Greene Central School District

Industrialism
Case Study
How does Industrialization Affect Life?
• Urbanization
– People move from the country to the cities
• Factories built in clusters near resources
– Cities grow around them because workers need a
place to live.
Living Conditions
• Rapid building of cities
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No development plans
No sanitary codes
No building codes
Bad housing, education, and little police protection
Unpaved streets
No drains
No garbage collection
• People get sick, lots of epidemics (like cholera)
– Life span 17 years for people in cities, 38 in rural areas
nearby
Working Conditions
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14 hr work day, 6 days a week
Same work every single day
Very dangerous!
Coal dust makes life of miners 10 years shorter
than that of other workers
• Women and children cheapest forms of labor
(cheapest workers, you can pay them less)
Middle Class
• Social class made up of skilled workers,
professionals, business people, and wealthy
farmers.
• Some more wealthy than aristocrats (nobles)
• Looked down upon because they didn’t inherit
wealth they made it in the “vulgar” business
world.
Middle Class
• Larger middle class emerges
– Not rich or poor
– Comfortable standard of living
Working Class
• See little improvement in working and living
conditions from 1800-1850
• Machines replace them in the work place
– Some even smash the machines in frustration
• They’re called luddites after Ned Ludd.
Positives of the Industrial Revolution
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Healthier diets
Better housing
Cheaper, mass-produced clothing
Expanded educational opportunities
Middle and upper classes
– Immediate improvements
– Workers takes longer, eventually get higher wages,
shorter hours and better working conditions
(because of Unions)
Long Term Effects
• Consumer goods
– Cheaper goods affordable to many rather than a
few
• Working conditions improved
• Profits = gov’t money from taxes = better
standards of living
Problems
• Child Labor
– Children as young as 6 worked 6 days a week from
6AM to 7 or 8 at night.
– Only one half and hour break for lunch and one
hour for dinner
– Dangerous machinery (lots of injuries)
– Fluff and dust in the air made them cough and get
sick.
Problems
• Factory Act passed in 1819
– Restricts working age and hours
– Young children still work in factories…
• Pollution
– From coal burning
– Dyes in rivers
– Wastes (fecal matter) in rivers