Mr. Mizell

THE NEGATIVES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION

EQ: What were the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution on individuals and society?

Living Conditions

Most factory workers lived in tenementsCheap, multifamily housing (8 or more

to a room)Cities did not plan for growth of populationLack housing, no drains on streetsNo sanitary codes (people were

throwing garbage and waste on the street or in rivers)

Disease and sickness is widespreadCholera

How the Other Half LivesJacob Riis – journalist who exposed the

slums and poverty of the citiesConsidered a “muckraker”

Company Towns

Some workers lived in company towns

Located near factories. They were setup by the factory owner

Cheap housing and a company storeWorkers would work all day make a

little money and spend it at the company store [money goes back to the business/owner]

Workers are taken advantage of

Working Conditions

Dangerous and unsanitaryWhy?

Owners do not want to spend money making factory safe and clean

All about profit; no government involvement (laissez-faire/capitalism)

British study found that those working in factories lived 20 years less than those in the countryside

In NYC, fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (1911)146 workers were killed, most were women

Doors were kept locked to keep people in/out

Meat Packing IndustryUpton Sinclair

Muckraker who investigated the meat packing industry in Chicago

Wrote The Jungle

Answer in your notes

1. What was most surprising to you?

2. What do you think was Upton Sinclair’s motive for writing The Jungle

3. How do you think the public responded?

Child Labor

Children from 5 – 14 worked25% - 30% of children in industrial countries worked

Why?Help the family (money)Better than being on the streetsSchool is optional

What about today?

Around 250 million Child Laborers in the world (2011)

Short-Response (8 or more sentences)

Was the Industrial Revolution good, bad, or both for society? Explain

Who benefited? ExplainWas it fair? ExplainHow would things be different today had the Industrial Revolution not occurred?

Vocab Review

StrikeTo refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands

TenementOvercrowded, run-down, and low cost housing in cities

CapitalismEconomic system based on the private ownership of businesses to make a profit

TextileAny cloth or fabric produced by weaving/knitting

MonopolyWhen one company has total control of a product/service

RealismShowing life how it is

ProletariatThose who do manual labor and work for wages; working class

UrbanizationGrowth of cities and migration of people into them

EntrepreneurA person who manages and takes on the risks of a business

SocialismEconomic system where the factors of production are owned and controlled by the state or public

MuckrakerThose who seek to expose corruption and social injustice

PlutocracyWealthy have power and rule society

IndustrializationThe development of industries for the machine production of goods

NativismBelief that native born people are superior to immigrants

Labor UnionGroup of workers that try to improve working conditions/wages

Mr. Mizell

SOCIETY’S REACTION

EQ: How did societies react to the problems of the Industrial Revolution?