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Essential Question

What changes did the Industrial Revolution bring?

What happened to Europe?

The Industrial Revolution brought many far reaching changes to Europe

How did cities change?

The Growth of Cities

1800 - 1850European cities grow dramatically…

especially in Britain

Cities become the home of industry

What happened economically?

Rise of Capitalism

People doing whatever they can to make money

How?

building factories building machines

buying raw

materials

producing goods finding markets

No matter what – it’s the people controlling production, not the government

How did business change?New Business Organizations

PARTNERSHIPS

CORPORATIONS

Two or more people put their money together in hopes of

making a profit

Create an organization of investors and all share the wealth

How did the workers feel?Rise of the Working Class

More factories = more workers needed

Problems:

Poor wages

Dangerous, unsafe conditions

Long work weeks (16 hours a day, 6 days a week)

No laws against child laborBut… workers made more

money in the factory than they would have on the farm

What did workers do?

Rise of Trade UnionsUnhappy workers couldn’t fight

the factory on their own…

So, they formed TRADE UNIONS

As association of workers who unite to improve wages, benefits, working conditions, rights, etc…

What was socialism?

Development of Socialism Workers rarely shared in the wealth of capitalism

A new idea emerged during this time called

SOCIALISMGovernment should own all the

MEANS OF PRODUCTION (factories, land, money, resources)

This way, no one is rich…. and no one is poor – everyone shares in the wealth of the society

Essential Question

What changes did the Industrial Revolution bring?

Changes of the Industrial Revolution

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