The Negatives of Industrialization

1. The Negatives of Industrialization Mr. Mizell

2. EQ: What were the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution on individuals and society?

3. Living Conditions • Most factory workers lived in tenements • Cheap, multifamily housing (8 or more to a room) • Cities did not plan for growth of population • Lack housing, no drains on streets • No sanitary codes (people were throwing garbage and waste on the street or in rivers) • Disease and sickness is widespread • Cholera

4. How the Other Half Lives • Jacob Riis – journalist who exposed the slums and poverty of the cities • Considered a “muckraker”

12. Company Towns • Some workers lived in company towns • Located near factories. They were setup by the factory owner • Cheap housing and a company store • Workers would work all day make a little money and spend it at the company store [money goes back to the business/owner] • Workers are taken advantage of

13. Working Conditions • Dangerous and unsanitary • Why? • Owners do not want to spend money making factory safe and clean • All about profit; no government involvement (laissez-faire/capitalism) • British study found that those working in factories lived 20 years less than those in the countryside

14. In NYC, fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (1911) • 146 workers were killed, most were women • Doors were kept locked to keep people in/out

15. Meat Packing Industry • Upton Sinclair • Muckraker who investigated the meat packing industry in Chicago • Wrote The Jungle

17. Answer in your notes • 1. What was most surprising to you? • 2. What do you think was Upton Sinclair’s motive for writing The Jungle • 3. How do you think the public responded?

18. Child Labor • Children from 5 – 14 worked • 25% - 30% of children in industrial countries worked • Why? • Help the family (money) • Better than being on the streets • School is optional

25. What about today?

26. Around 250 million Child Laborers in the world (2011)

29. Short-Response (8 or more sentences) • Was the Industrial Revolution good, bad, or both for society? Explain • Who benefited? Explain • Was it fair? Explain • How would things be different today had the Industrial Revolution not occurred?

30. Vocab Review

31. Strike • To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands

32. Tenement • Overcrowded, run-down, and low cost housing in cities

33. Capitalism • Economic system based on the private ownership of businesses to make a profit

34. Textile • Any cloth or fabric produced by weaving/knitting

35. Monopoly • When one company has total control of a product/service

36. Realism • Showing life how it is

37. Proletariat • Those who do manual labor and work for wages; working class

38. Urbanization • Growth of cities and migration of people into them

39. Entrepreneur • A person who manages and takes on the risks of a business

40. Socialism • Economic system where the factors of production are owned and controlled by the state or public

41. Muckraker • Those who seek to expose corruption and social injustice

42. Plutocracy • Wealthy have power and rule society

43. Industrialization • The development of industries for the machine production of goods

44. Nativism • Belief that native born people are superior to immigrants

45. Labor Union • Group of workers that try to improve working conditions/wages

46. Society’s Reaction Mr. Mizell

47. EQ: How did societies react to the problems of the Industrial Revolution?