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    Industrial RevolutionDay 4: How did People Live During the Industrial Revolution

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    Do Now

    What are some of the ways working in afactory differed from work under thecottage system?

    Why did the textile mills put the cottageindustry workers out of business?

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    GALLERY WALK

    Visit each station

    Complete corresponding questions in your packet

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    Station 1: Working Class Homes& Neighborhoods

    Filth & Disease No running water or toilets

    Human & factory waste emptied into waterways

    Diseases like cholera, typhus, smallpox anddysentery spread due to poor sanitation

    One Room Apartment for Entire Family Built fast & cheap

    Located near factory Chimney smoke, waste from factories

    Dark, Narrow Streets Unsafe

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    Station 2: Life as Coal Miner

    Dangerous

    Flooding

    Gas Explosions

    Mine Collapse

    Diseases

    Respiratory Illnesses

    Women & Children Workers

    Vulnerable population

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    Dr. Ward, 1819: "Last summer I visited three

    [textile factories]. [I] could not remain tenminutes in the factory without gasping for

    breath. How it is possible for those who are

    doomed to remain there twelve or fifteen

    hours to endure it? If we take into account

    the heated temperature of the air, and the

    contamination of the air, it is a matter of

    astonishment to my mind, how the work

    people can bear the confinement for so

    great a length of time."

    Mill Worker: "I commenced working in a

    worsted mill at nine years of age." By the

    age of twenty-five he was severely disabled:

    "I was a healthy and strong boy, when I first

    went to the mill. When I was about eight

    years old, I could walk from Leeds to

    Bradford (ten miles) without any pain or

    difficulty, and with a little fatigue; now I

    cannot stand without crutches! I cannot

    walk at all! Perhaps I might creep up stairs. I

    go up stairs backwards every night! I found

    my limbs begin to fail, after I had been

    working about a year. It came on with great

    pain in my legs and knees. I am very much

    fatigued towards the end of the day. I

    cannot work in the mill now."

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    Station 3: Life as a Mill Worker

    Diseases & Injuries

    Fumes, chemicals, heat

    Standing in one place damages bones & joints

    No safety equipment (i.e. Guard Rails)

    Child Labor

    Employ orphans dont have to pay them

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    Station 4: Middle Class

    Social Class of Skilled Workers Professionals, business people & wealthy landowners Enjoyed Comfortable Standard of Living

    Time & Money Available For: Leisure activities Education (Gender Differences) Domestic help Better diet

    Fashion, housing Women Lack Rights

    Cant: own property, divorce, vote, write a will

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    Station 5: A Modest Proposal

    Satire

    Plight of Tenant Farmer in Country

    Response to Anti-Irish / Catholic Sentiment

    Mocks the Heartless Approach to the Poor

    Lack of a Social Safety Net

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    Station 6: Art & Literature

    Romanticism Optimistic view of new technology

    Changes would elevate society

    Encouraged individualism, freedom, andemotion

    Images Reflect Emotional & Ideal view

    Realism Anti-Romanticism Images Reflect Truth and Accuracy Poor / Working Class Were Subjects

    Often depicted people at work

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    Station 6: Art & Literature

    Frankensteinby Mary Shelley Gothic Novel: Extension of Romanticisms

    celebration of emotion terror as the most extreme form of emotion

    Death and destruction monster wreaks symbolizesthe negative impact of industrialization Frankensteins obsession with science is motivated by his

    desires for fame and profit - he fails to consider theconsequences of his actions

    Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Calls attention to negative impact of the Poor Law,

    child labor, the recruitment of children as criminals,and the presence of 'street children'

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    New Poor Law (1834)

    Send poor to workhouses to prevent allbut the very hopeless from seeking assistance

    Many illegitimate or abandoned children were

    sent to the workhouse

    Poverty was the fault of theindividual who should be

    punished Inmates paid little & forced to

    work hard; conditions wereterrible