Agree or Disagree?

• Agree or Disagree with the following statements. Write you responses on your paper: – As long as business stays within the law, anything

they do is right. – If you lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead in life, then

give it all back before you die, you should be remembered as a hero.

– The ends justify the means.

Notes 1.1A: Industrialization

Industrialization:

• Definition: the large scale development of industry (factories)

• Began in the 1800s and continued to flourish through the 1900s. – Was a cause of the Civil War– Helped cause urbanization (the growth of cities)– Attracted people to the US for jobs– Required resources and markets

Industrialization Needs:

• Technology/ Science• Human resources• Natural resources• Central Locations• Markets

Brainstorm:

• This invention had a huge impact on the US, and the entire world. What do you think it changed?

Science’s Impact

• Electric Lightbulb• Assembly Line • Scientific Management • Efficiency• Number of Workers• View of Workers

Positive Effects of Industrialization

• Created Jobs• Increased production• Lowered costs• Increased revenue• Overall, very beneficial to owners and the

government

Assembly Line Statistics: Years of Operation 1914 1915

Cost of each item produced $850 $300

Time for each item produced

12 hours 28 minutes 93 minutes

Yearly production 30,000 items 300,000 items

Yearly profit 12 million 60 million

Workers salary $3 a day $5 a day

Negative Effects of Industrialization

• Loss of Freedom in the workplace (no more camaraderie)

• Loss of Worker Identity (bosses no longer know or care who their workers are)

• Long Hours and Low Wages (typical 12 hour day, 6 days a week, $3-12 a day)

• Dangerous Working Conditions • Child Labor

Problems?

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (39:34)

• What problems do you see? Write them down.

Solutions?

• Progressives- people who attempt to solve the problems that developed during the Gilded Age

• What sorts of things do you think the Progressives may have come up with? Write your ideas down.

Solutions?

• How do you get businesses to fix the problems?

Solutions?• Unions– Were needed to instigate change in late 1800s

and early 1900s– Methods:• Collective Bargaining • Political Involvement• Strikes

– Successes: child labor laws; minimum wage; maximum hours; breaks, fire escapes; etc.

– Short-lived