• 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?