Results of the
Industrial Revolution
Results of the Industrial
Revolution
Union Movement
Factory Act
Child Labor Laws
Abolition of Slavery
Changes in Women’s
rights
• Changes in Education
• Spread throughout
the world- led to
modern cities & a
global economy
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Reforms in Business
• Labor reforms and Union movement
• Many people thought the factory system
treated workers poorly. Workers and
reformers began to fight for more rights.
-Unions speak for workers in a particular trade.
-Collective bargaining: negotiations between workers
and their employers.
-If factory owners refused the union’s demands, then
workers could strike (refuse to work).
-British government did not like labor unions, but
tolerated them after 1825
Reforms in Business cont.
• Factory Act (1833) & Child Labor Laws
*illegal to hire children under age 9
*9-12 years old (8 hours) and 13-17 years
old (12 hours)
*Children under 18 couldn’t work at night
*1842 Mines Act-children & women
couldn’t work underground
*Ten Hours Act (1847)- 10 hour day for
women & children
Social Changes
• Abolition of Slavery
- William Wilberforce
led the fight to end
slavery.
-Mixed motives behind
abolition: cheap labor
or slave labor?
-It was abolished in
Britain (1833) & United
States (1865)
Social Changes cont.
• Women led reform
movements to stop
inequality of
wages & work
conditions.
• Education
- U.S. reformerHorace Mann favored
free public education
- set up public school
systems in the 1850’s
(USA) and late 1800’s
(Britain)
Social Changes cont.
• Romanticism:
-A new way of thinking that focused
on human feelings, emotion and
imagination, love of nature
-Man’s natural place is in the
countryside -depicted in art &
literature (poetry)
-Most romantics saw the Industrial
Revolution as an attack on nature &
human personality
-Leader of English Romanticism was
William Wordsworth
The Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company
I gazed-and-gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had
brought:
***Poem by William Wordsworth
Spread of Industrialization
• People (including children) went to
Britain to study the latest ideas and
techniques
• Belgium, Germany & France
industrialized after England=
railroads, inventions etc.
• United States-(After Civil War) =
industrial/technological boom.
Started with the textile industry
• Created competition between
industrialized nationscolonialism/imperialism increased
due to need for raw materials
• Poverty increased in less developed
nations= global inequality