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DO NOW What do you think the message of this cartoon is? Page 31 in ntbk

DO NOW What do you think the message of this cartoon is? Page 31 in ntbk. Post-Industrial Revolution Reforms. Page 31 in notebook. Union Movement. Voluntary associations of workers Unions engaged in collective bargaining to get better working conditions and higher pay Could strike

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DO NOW What do you think the message of this cartoon is? Page 31 in ntbk

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  1. DO NOWWhat do you think the message of this cartoon is?Page 31 in ntbk

  2. Post-Industrial Revolution Reforms Page 31 in notebook

  3. Union Movement • Voluntary associations of workers • Unions engaged in collective bargaining to get better working conditions and higher pay • Could strike • Until 1825, unions were outlawed in Britain • In the US, skilled workers had belonged to unions since the early 1800s

  4. Legislative Reform • In both GB and the US, new laws reformed some of the worst abuses of industrialization • 1832: Parliament Commission investigated child labor • Factory Act of 1833 • No children under age of 9 • 9-12 could work 8 hours • 13-17 could work 12 hours • 1842 Mines Act • No women or children could work underground

  5. Other Reform Movements • Abolition of Slavery • Slavery abolished in the British Empire in 1833 • New industrialists were for cheap labor, not slave labor • Women • Abolitionists wondered why their own rights should be denied on the basis of gender • Public education • Prison reform …Democracy was GROWING!

  6. Mini-project • Using paper and pencil, or computer program: • Draw a political cartoon that illustrates a positive or negative idea about *either* • Communism • Socialism • Capitalism • Due end of class tomorrow (Wednesday) in Dropbox (if electronic) or in Ms. D’s hand (if paper/pencil).

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