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Warm-Up: Exploited Factory Workers

Warm-Up: Exploited Factory Workers.

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Warm-Up: Exploited Factory Workers

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  1. Warm-Up: Exploited Factory Workers • During the Industrial Revolution, many people found work in the new factories that had opened. Factory workers were often exploited, forced to work long hours for little money. Labor unions were the workers’ only voice – their only bargaining tool with management. • Why do you think labor unions were more effective than individuals in dealing with management and employers?

  2. TAKS Warm-Up - Steam Power - Available labor supply - Abundance of raw materials • Which of the following would be the best title for this list? • Factors Leading to the French Revolution • Increased Agricultural Output • Factors Leading to the Industrial Revolution • Decreased Urban Population

  3. Part 3: Mass Society & Democracy Edison Anthony Marx Ford

  4. 2nd Industrial Revolution • 1st IR: textiles, railroads, iron, & coal • 2nd IR: steel, chemicals, electricity & petroleum • New Products: lighter, smaller, & faster • Electricity provided light, heat and motion • Thomas Edison & Alexander Graham Bell • Internal Combustion Engine = new source of power in transportation  Car! • Orville & Wilber Wright = 1st flight

  5. Effects of 2nd Industrial Revolution • Wages increased • Price of goods is lowered because of cheaper transportation • Increased sales of manufactured goods • Clocks, bicycles, electric lights, and typewriters • World Economy • Europeans received goods from S. America, Africa, Australia, and Asia

  6. Organizing the Working Class • Marxism: oppressors vs. oppressed • Karl Marx, appalled by working conditions, published the Communist Manifesto • 2 classes: Proletariat (working class) vs. Bourgeoisie (middle class) • Struggle between two would lead to a revolution and overthrow of the bourgeoisie • Dictatorship would form and organize the means of production • Ultimate goal: creation of a classless society

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  8. New Urban Society • Population growth: by 1890, 60% of England’s population lived in urban areas • Why such rapid growth?: • Lack of land and jobs drove people from the countryside • Jobs in factories, service trades and professions were available in the city • With growth, came improvements in urban living conditions – better running water and proper drainage systems • “From the toilet to the river in half the time”

  9. Social Structure Henry Ford – Cars, Assembly Line • The New Elite • 5% of population – controlled 30-40% of the wealth • The most successful during the IR combined with the upper middle class • Leaders in government and military (decision-makers) Andrew Carnegie – Mass Steel Production John D. Rockefeller – Oil Refineries, Gasoline

  10. Social Structure • The Middle Class • Upper Middle Class: doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. • Lower Middle Class: shopkeepers, traders, etc. (providers of goods and services) • White collar workers (between Lower middle class and lower classes) • Salespeople, secretaries, etc. • Believed in hard work, going to church and a “right way of doing things”

  11. Working Class • 80% of European population • Farm laborers, sharecroppers, etc. • Unskilled day laborers and domestic servants • Improvements in life style: • Rise in wages • Decline in consumer costs • 10-hour workday and Saturday afternoons off

  12. Women in Society • Attitude towards women = stay at home and take care of the children • Changes came when women were needed for low-wage jobs (clerks, typists, etc.) • Effects: • Decline in # of children born to a family (also due to increased use of birth control) • Middle-class Family attitudes: “Ideal of togetherness” • Daughters worked until they married • Childhood ended at 9/10 • Higher paid positions lead to increased standard of living and more women could stay at home

  13. Women’s Rights Movement • Feminism: movement for women’s rights • Movement took hold in Britain • New Rights • 1870: right to own property • Access to universities • Main struggle: Equal political rights, specifically the right to vote – not gained until after WWI

  14. Universal Education • Before 1870, education was only for the elite and wealthier middle class • After 1870, western governments set up state-financed primary schools (Ages 6-12 were required to attend school) • Why?: need for trained, skilled labor and… giving more people the right to vote created a need for a better educated voter • Immediate result = increased literacy

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