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 were small factories, typically in the garment industry, where wages were low and conditions unhealthy.

a group of workers who organized to protect the interests of its members, usually for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions.

an agreement among workers to stop working until the employer meets their demands.

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.

within about 150 years, the population of Europe grew exponentially because of new, life-extending inventions, need for child workers, and immigration.

Cities were extremely crowded, filthy, disease-filled, and loud.

heavily populated parts of a city marked by filth and squalor.

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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Term	Definition
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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