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Learning Objective: Today I will be able to compare the benefits and consequences of Industrialization by reading to create a positive/negative web. Agenda: Learning Objective Industrialization Handout Lecture: Ch. 9.2 Industrialization Benefits/Consequences Web Exit Slip.
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Learning Objective: • Today I will be able to compare the benefits and consequences of Industrialization by reading to create a positive/negative web. • Agenda: • Learning Objective • Industrialization Handout • Lecture: Ch. 9.2 Industrialization • Benefits/Consequences Web • Exit Slip
Industrial Revolution • How did this new technology changed how some people lived. • Compare how much clothing owned before the Industrial Revolution to how much clothing people own today. • Identify one positive and one negative effect of the industrial revolution.
Title Notes: Ch. 9.2 Industrialization • Factory Work • Factories pay more than farms • Demand for more expensive goods
Industrial City Rise: • Urbanization- city-building & movement of people to cities • Growing population provides work & market for factory goods • British industrial cities: • London/Birmingham/Manchester/Liverpool
Living Conditions: • Sickness widespread- epidemics (cholera) urban slums-city lifespan 17yrs • Wealthy merchants & Factory owners-live suburban • Cities lack sanitary and building codes • Not enough housing/police/education
Working Conditions • Average work day 14 hrs/6 days a week • Dirty poor lit factories injure workers • Many coal miners killed by coal dust
Middle Class • Skilled workers/merchants/rich farmers/professionals • Middle class looked down on by landowners & aristocrats • Middle class=comfy living
Working Class • Laborers’ lives not improved & some are replaced by machines • Luddits & others destroy machines that put them out of work • Unemployment rise= RIOTS!
Immediate Benefits • Creates jobs/enriches nation/encourages technology • education expands/clothing cheaper/diet & housing improve • Workers eventually win shorter hours/ better wages & conditions
Mills of Manchester • Manchester has labor/water power/nearby port at Liverpool • Poor live & work in unhealthy & dangerous environment • Business owners risk own $ in factories
Children In Manchester Factories: • Children as young as 6 work in factories & many injured • 1819 Factory Act restrict working age & hours • Factory pollution fouls the air & poison rivers • Consumer goods & $$$ • Factories changed how people work & live • work
Exit Slip • Identify ONE benefit & ONE consequence of industrialization. How are those benefits & consequence different (or the same) today?