INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
aka
INDUSTRIAL AGE
aka
INDUSTRIALIZATION
Industrialization led to:
Factory jobs
Mining jobs
Transportation jobs
Increased need for workers led to:
- People moving from the country to cities to work
- Hiring women to work
- Hiring children to work
- Factory owners hired women and children because
there were not enough men to fill all the jobs.
Industrialization caused changes for
women
- Women’s work went from life on the farm to life in the
factories and the city
- Women no longer raised their food or made the things
her family needed, now they bought them
- Women worked 12 to 14 hours a day in factories
Why hire a woman?
• Cheaper than a man
• Easier to train than a man
• Easier to control than a man
Women in factories
Women in factories
Why hire a kid?
Kids work cheap
Kids have little bodies
and little hands and
can work in tight places
Selling
baskets
Why might
they be
selling these
at night?
Selling
radishes
Boy shining
shoes
Making cigars
Kids in mines
Kids in mines
Kids in the mines
Kids in mines
Kids in mines
Kids in mines
Lunchtime at the cannery
Girls working weaving machines
Working in a box factory
Stringing beans
Kids in factories
Kids in factories
Kids in factories
Kids in factories
Kids in factories
Kids in factories
Kids in factories
Kids in factories
Factory Aid Act
In 1833 British Parliament (England’s
legislature) passed the Factory Aid Act
which limited the number of hours kids
could work.
Do you think these laws were followed?
How did child labor help
increase industrialization?
How did child labor help
business owners?
How did child labor help
families?
As years passed
Industrialization
increases
Did this mean more jobs?
NO.
Why not?!
Better technology
Better machines
Needed fewer workers
Fewer jobs
Europeans left Europe to find jobs
Many Europeans emigrated (moved) to the U.S.
for land of their own or factory jobs
EUROPE
How did industrialization affect:
• Women?
• Children?
• Emigration?