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DO NOW What do you think the message of this cartoon is? Page 31 in ntbk. Post-Industrial Revolution Reforms. Page 31 in notebook. Union Movement. Voluntary associations of workers Unions engaged in collective bargaining to get better working conditions and higher pay Could strike
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DO NOWWhat do you think the message of this cartoon is?Page 31 in ntbk
Post-Industrial Revolution Reforms Page 31 in notebook
Union Movement • Voluntary associations of workers • Unions engaged in collective bargaining to get better working conditions and higher pay • Could strike • Until 1825, unions were outlawed in Britain • In the US, skilled workers had belonged to unions since the early 1800s
Legislative Reform • In both GB and the US, new laws reformed some of the worst abuses of industrialization • 1832: Parliament Commission investigated child labor • Factory Act of 1833 • No children under age of 9 • 9-12 could work 8 hours • 13-17 could work 12 hours • 1842 Mines Act • No women or children could work underground
Other Reform Movements • Abolition of Slavery • Slavery abolished in the British Empire in 1833 • New industrialists were for cheap labor, not slave labor • Women • Abolitionists wondered why their own rights should be denied on the basis of gender • Public education • Prison reform …Democracy was GROWING!
Mini-project • Using paper and pencil, or computer program: • Draw a political cartoon that illustrates a positive or negative idea about *either* • Communism • Socialism • Capitalism • Due end of class tomorrow (Wednesday) in Dropbox (if electronic) or in Ms. D’s hand (if paper/pencil).