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Industrial Revolution and Impact: Cottage Industries to Mass Production

Explore the Industrial Revolution from cottage industries to mass production, focusing on key factors such as assembly lines, division of labor, and innovations like Henry Ford's Model T. Witness the societal shifts, urbanization, and changes in labor dynamics during this transformative era.

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Industrial Revolution and Impact: Cottage Industries to Mass Production

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  1. WARM UP 1. What are the four factors of production? Give an example of each. 2. What do these four factors combine to create? 3. Explain the following: • Cottage Industries • Assembly Line • Division of Labor

  2. The Industrial Revolution 1750 - 1900

  3. The Industrial Revolution • From this: • To this:

  4. What was the difference? • Cottage Industries: out • Assembly Lines/Division of Labor: in • HENRY FORD: • Wants to make cars… • More cars • Made faster • For Less $$ • He streamlines the production of his MODEL T automobile • Doing so, he perfects the Assembly Line Mass Production!

  5. Henry Ford’s Model T • WHY the $$ Difference? • Brand New! 1910 Model T • Brand New! 1916 Model T • Cost: $780 • Cost: $380 • Method: • Stationary Assembly Line • Time to create: • 12.5 Hours • Method: • Moving Assembly Line • Time to create: • 1.5 Hours

  6. Henry Ford’s Model T • WHY the $$ Difference? • Brand New! 1910 Model T • Brand New! 1916 Model T • Cost: $780 • Cost: $380 • Division of Labor--Each individual performs specific role on an Assembly Line • Specialization--A person’s “expertise” at their given role.

  7. Industrial Revolution: BEFORE • Farmed with handmade tools • Lived in simple cottages • Only firelight and candles • Made their own things • Rarely traveled beyond their own town AFTER • Cities created • Bought clothes and food others (factories) made • Could travel much farther and faster • Communication was much faster • Lots of scientific and medical advances made life more comfortable

  8. Population Growth

  9. Question (don’t answer out loud): • 1. How did the agricultural revolution contribute to population growth? • A: Less workers were needed, so ppl had less children due to less money • B: There was more food, so ppl ate better, where healthier, and lived longer • C: Better medicine meant ppl lived longer • D: There were less farm jobs, so ppl loved to urban areas

  10. URBANIZATION • Urbanization is the movement from farm to cities. Increased Leisure Increased Pollution Decreased Bartering, Increased use of money

  11. Lower Class = factory workers • Lived in cramped slums • Disease and sickness common • No benefits • Built own community and friendships • Turned to religion for comfort • Methodism- stressed personal faith • Uplifting hymns and songs of praise • Kensignton Market Court- England

  12. Canning factory:

  13. Working Class Women: a Double Burden • Had to work 12-14 hour days AND then came home to take care of families • Worked in factories, as domestic servants, or washerwomen, etc… • Vastly different from Middle Class ladies

  14. 1840 Lowell Mills 1860

  15. Silver mining in Nevada: 1870s

  16. Removing the Dead Miners: • How would you describe conditions in the mines based on this picture?

  17. Middle Class shifting beliefs/ideas • Ideal family: • Father/husband was head of household and “breadwinner” • Wife stayed at home and took care of home • “cult of domesticity” • Different from earlier Industrial days when wife helped run family business • Children were seen and not heard

  18. Middle Class Housing: Factory owners

  19. Population… • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4HxPxNrZ0’ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2xOvKFFz4

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