• Learning Objective:– Today I will be able to compare the benefits and
consequences of Industrialization by reading to create a positive/negative web.
• Agenda:1.Learning Objective2.Industrialization Handout3.Lecture: Ch. 9.2 Industrialization4.Benefits/Consequences Web5.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?