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Hardships of Early Industrial Life

Hardships of Early Industrial Life. Lesson 3 Chapter 7.3 Big Idea: The Industrial Revolution created material benefits a s well as social problems. Objectives. Warm up. What was life like for industry workers?. Review Posters. New Industrial City. Urbanization

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Hardships of Early Industrial Life

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  1. Hardships of Early Industrial Life Lesson 3 Chapter 7.3 Big Idea: The Industrial Revolution created material benefits as well as social problems

  2. Objectives

  3. Warm up • What was life like for industry workers?

  4. Review Posters

  5. New Industrial City • Urbanization • Increasing demand for workers • Pollution • Tenements • No running water • No sewage or sanitation • Disease

  6. The Factory System • Rigid Discipline • Hard work • Long hours 12-16 • No safety devices • Coal dust destroyed lungs • Sick or injured lost job • Women Workers • Preferred b/c cost less • Hard family life • Child Labor • Nimble fingers for textile • Mines • Slaves to the machine • Some died; stunted growth • Eventually laws created

  7. Simulation Day 4

  8. Working Class v Middle Class • Protests • Weavers and other skilled artisans • Called Luddites (burned factories and destroyed machines) • Strikes outlawed • Spread of Methodism • Personal sense of faith • Hymns & sermons • Promised forgiveness • Social reform • New Middle Class • Entrepreneurs benefit • Merchants in factories • Inventors or skilled artisans • Lived in solid, well-furnished homes • Men gained influence in parliament • Women became “ladies” • Sons- education • Confidence & lack of empathy for poor

  9. Benefits & Problems Pros: • Labor unions formed • Bargain w/employers for better wages, hours, working condit. • Men eventually gain right to vote • Material benefits • More factories= more jobs= increased wages • Railroad connecting people Cons: • Social problems • Low pay, unemployment, dismal living

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