Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution

1. Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution Chapter 5 Section 3

2. Objective To understand the social impacts of the industrial revolution Students will describe in writing what social impacts the industrial revolution caused.

3. I. Population Movement • Urbanization • Movement of people to the cities • Cities grew around natural resources • Manchester • 1750s – 17,000 • 1780 – 40,000 • 1801 – 70,000

4. Manchester, England

5. II. New Social Classes • Creation of middle and working classes • Middle Class • Owned and operated new factories, mines, etc • Comfortable living • Working Class • Felt lost and bewildered • Harsh working conditions • Poor living

6. III. Industrial Middle Class Benefitted most from Industrial Revolution Entrepreneurs Bourgeoisie Lived in spacious, “modern” houses Had little sympathy for working class Women did not leave home

7. IV. Industrial Working Class • Poor struggling community • Lived in tenements • No running water, sewage, or sanitation system • Diseases were widespread • Entire Families worked • Struggled for survival • Loss of job meant loss of life

8. Industrial Living Conditions

11. V. Labor Protests • Secret labor unions formed • Sought worker reforms • 1811 – 1813 • Worker’s riots • Luddites smashed machines and burned factories • Opposed labor-saving machines

12. VI. Life in the Factories and Mines: Working Conditions • Long work days • 12 – 16 hours • 6 – 7 day work weeks • Only take breaks when owner gives permission • Exhaustion led to frequent accidents • Sickness or injury resulted in loss of job

13. Child Labor

24. VII. Labor Reform • “Factory Acts” • Early 1800s • Limited child’s workday to 12 hours • Children under 8 or 9 could not work in cotton mills • Laws not rigidly enforced until 1830s – 1840s

25. VIII. Results of Industrialization Laws were made to protect women and children Labor unions were formed Working-class men gained suffrage Wages increased opportunities increased