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The Industrial Revolution (Time Period) Mid-1700's to early-1900's
Louis Pasteur Germ Theory
Florence Nightingale School OF Nursing, Hospital Sanitation
Upton Sinclair Exposed Meat Packing Industry Conditions
Henry Ford Assembly Line (many men making individual parts of a larger machine)
James Watt Steam Engine
Michael Faraday Dynamo (first generator
Alfred Nobel Dynamite
James Hargreeves Spinning Jenny
Wright Brothers First Motor-operated Airplane
Guglielmo Marconi Radio
Alexander Bell Telephone
Samuel Morse Telegraph
Factory Working Conditions extremely dangerous jobs for long hours and little pay (about 12-hour days, a dollar per day, 6 days a week). Risked bodily mutilation and infection. Dirty, polluted, crowded, loud working conditions.
Children In The Workforce Many children joined the workforce to support their families. They were sought-after workers because of their small size, youthful energy, and lesser pay.
Women In The Workforce often young and unmarried, women were sought-after employees because they could be paid less than men for the same work.
Collective Bargaining negotiations between employers and employee representatives concerning wages, working conditions, and other terms of employment.
Sweatshops Sweatshops were small factories, typically in the garment industry, where wages were low and conditions unhealthy.
Labor Unions a group of workers who organized to protect the interests of its members, usually for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions.
Strike an agreement among workers to stop working until the employer meets their demands.
Urbanization In Agriculture, the invention of new farming tools left many farmers without jobs. This led to them finding work in factories and moving to the cities around them, leading to urbanization.
Population Growth within about 150 years, the population of Europe grew exponentially because of new, life-extending inventions, need for child workers, and immigration.
City Life Cities were extremely crowded, filthy, disease-filled, and loud.
Slums heavily populated parts of a city marked by filth and squalor.
Tenements filthy, overcrowded apartment buildings of four to six stories, that usually housed four families on each floor.
Beginnings Of The Industrial Revolution With new inventions abound, especially the steam engine, factories began popping up all around Europe.
Arguments For/Against New Technology For: *progress of human knowledge *quicker and easier production of goods Against: *loss of jobs for workers *abuse of workers *horrible working conditions *pollution
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