The Industrial Revolution and Society

• Urbanization– Crowded cities– Poor sanitation– Increased Crime

• Disease– Crowded living conditions– Poor water systems– Cholera!

MAP OF CHOLERA DEATHS

CHOLERA AND WATER PUMP LOCATIONS

New Social Classes

– Middle Class (Bourgeoisie)

• Business managers / owners

• Motivated to “get ahead”

• Women – focus on housework

– Working Class• Lived in poverty• Tenements –

crowded apartments

Working Conditions

• Crowded, dangerous factories

• Rigid schedules, harsh treatment

• Poor air quality• Lose a limb – lose your

job• 12-16 hour days• Child workers – as young

as 6• Women – worked at

factories AND at home

Solutions

• Luddites – displaced workers raid factories and destroy machines

• Unions – Groups of workers who join to demand better pay and conditions

• Methodism – open Protestant branch that gave workers a sense of meaning and escape

Results of Industrialization

• Many hardships• Laws to protect workers and children• Rise of unions• Right to vote for men• Wages begin to rise • Cost begin to fall