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Industrial RevolutionDay 4: How did People Live During the Industrial Revolution
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Do Now
What are some of the ways working in afactory differed from work under thecottage system?
Why did the textile mills put the cottageindustry workers out of business?
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GALLERY WALK
Visit each station
Complete corresponding questions in your packet
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Station 1: Working Class Homes& Neighborhoods
Filth & Disease No running water or toilets
Human & factory waste emptied into waterways
Diseases like cholera, typhus, smallpox anddysentery spread due to poor sanitation
One Room Apartment for Entire Family Built fast & cheap
Located near factory Chimney smoke, waste from factories
Dark, Narrow Streets Unsafe
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Station 2: Life as Coal Miner
Dangerous
Flooding
Gas Explosions
Mine Collapse
Diseases
Respiratory Illnesses
Women & Children Workers
Vulnerable population
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Dr. Ward, 1819: "Last summer I visited three
[textile factories]. [I] could not remain tenminutes in the factory without gasping for
breath. How it is possible for those who are
doomed to remain there twelve or fifteen
hours to endure it? If we take into account
the heated temperature of the air, and the
contamination of the air, it is a matter of
astonishment to my mind, how the work
people can bear the confinement for so
great a length of time."
Mill Worker: "I commenced working in a
worsted mill at nine years of age." By the
age of twenty-five he was severely disabled:
"I was a healthy and strong boy, when I first
went to the mill. When I was about eight
years old, I could walk from Leeds to
Bradford (ten miles) without any pain or
difficulty, and with a little fatigue; now I
cannot stand without crutches! I cannot
walk at all! Perhaps I might creep up stairs. I
go up stairs backwards every night! I found
my limbs begin to fail, after I had been
working about a year. It came on with great
pain in my legs and knees. I am very much
fatigued towards the end of the day. I
cannot work in the mill now."
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Station 3: Life as a Mill Worker
Diseases & Injuries
Fumes, chemicals, heat
Standing in one place damages bones & joints
No safety equipment (i.e. Guard Rails)
Child Labor
Employ orphans dont have to pay them
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Station 4: Middle Class
Social Class of Skilled Workers Professionals, business people & wealthy landowners Enjoyed Comfortable Standard of Living
Time & Money Available For: Leisure activities Education (Gender Differences) Domestic help Better diet
Fashion, housing Women Lack Rights
Cant: own property, divorce, vote, write a will
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Station 5: A Modest Proposal
Satire
Plight of Tenant Farmer in Country
Response to Anti-Irish / Catholic Sentiment
Mocks the Heartless Approach to the Poor
Lack of a Social Safety Net
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Station 6: Art & Literature
Romanticism Optimistic view of new technology
Changes would elevate society
Encouraged individualism, freedom, andemotion
Images Reflect Emotional & Ideal view
Realism Anti-Romanticism Images Reflect Truth and Accuracy Poor / Working Class Were Subjects
Often depicted people at work
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Station 6: Art & Literature
Frankensteinby Mary Shelley Gothic Novel: Extension of Romanticisms
celebration of emotion terror as the most extreme form of emotion
Death and destruction monster wreaks symbolizesthe negative impact of industrialization Frankensteins obsession with science is motivated by his
desires for fame and profit - he fails to consider theconsequences of his actions
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Calls attention to negative impact of the Poor Law,
child labor, the recruitment of children as criminals,and the presence of 'street children'
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New Poor Law (1834)
Send poor to workhouses to prevent allbut the very hopeless from seeking assistance
Many illegitimate or abandoned children were
sent to the workhouse
Poverty was the fault of theindividual who should be
punished Inmates paid little & forced to
work hard; conditions wereterrible