Unit 5: 1750-1900
 Traditional Farming Life
 Farming
 Population
 Village Life
 Wealth distribution
 Land distribution
Name some of the early
industries in Europe. What
were some advantages of
these early industries?
Disadvantages?

Domestic System/Cottage Industry
Merchant buys raw fiber  Women and children
clean, sort, spin  Merchant collects yarn, pays, takes
it to weaver  Men weave  Merchant pays and
picks up woven cloth takes it to the fuller  Fuller
shapes and cleans  Dyer…dyes  Merchant sells
finished cloth or clothing
Mining
Mining
Enclosure Movement
Crop rotation
 Successful Farming = Extra Capital
 What is capital???
 Parliament
 Entrepreneurs
 Population Increase
 What might be some advantages
that Great Britain had in making
it the “birthplace” of the
Industrial Revolution? Come up
with at least TWO guesses!

Great Britain
 Advantages to industrialization

Textiles
 Advances in machinery
▪ Steam Engine

Factory System
 Mass production
 Interchangeable Parts
Steam
Engine
Textile
Factory
Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times
Specialization and Division
of Labor
 Long hours
 Destroys traditional life
 Transportation
 Iron to Steel
 Better roads and canals
 Steamboat
 Locomotive
 Electricity
 Communications
 Consumer Goods
 What areas of the world (outside
Great Britain) do you think
Industrialization spread to first?
Why? What areas do you think
were LEAST impacted by
industrialization? Why? Explain.
Other nations begin
to industrialize
 Classical Liberalism
 Adam Smith – The Wealth of
Nations (1776)
 John Stuart Mill – On Liberty
(1859)
 Business organization
 Corporations
 Rise of the Middle Class
 Middle Class Occupations
 Education
 Cult of Domesticity/Separate
Spheres
 Roles for Men and Women
 How do you think the lives of the
Middle Class and the lives of the
Working Class differed? What
about working class lives may
have been ESPECIALLY difficult
for women? Explain.
 Rise of the Working Class
 Working Class Occupations
 Repetitive, Dangerous, Low Pay
 Children
 Roles of Women in the Working Class
 Mill Girls
 Domestic servants
 Balancing Between Cult of Domesticity
AND working VERY Difficult
 Tenements
 Poor health
 Cholera and Typhoid Epidemics
 Pollution
 How do you think the working
class reacted to their conditions?
What actions may they have
taken? Explain.
The Labor Movement
 Unionization
▪Strikes
▪Parliament
▪Collective Bargaining
 Anarchism
 Utopian movements
 Robert Owen
▪Cotton Mill Town (New Lanark)
 Karl Marx
▪Communism
▪Proletariat (Working Class) vs.
Bourgeoisie (Middle/Upper Classes)
New Lanark – Robert Owen’s Mill Town
New Lanark School House – Dancing for Visitors
Voting Rights
Public
Services/Health/Education
Police, Fire Departments,
Hospitals
Required Education
Whereas it is expedient to take effectual measures for
correcting divers abuses that have long prevailed in the
choice of members to serve in the commons' house of
parliament to deprive many inconsiderable places of the
right of returning members to grant such privilege to large
populous and wealthy towns to increase the number of
knights of the shire to extend the elective franchise to
many of his majesty's subjects who have not heretofore
enjoyed the same and to diminish the expense of
elections Be it therefore enacted by the king's most
excellent majesty by and with the advice and consent of the
lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present
parliament assembled and by the authority of the same That
each of the boroughs enumerated in the schedule marked
(A) to this act annexed ˆ shall from and after the end of this
present parliament cease to return any member or members
to serve in parliament in And be it enacted that each of the
boroughs enumerated in the schedule marked (B) to this act
annexed shall from and after the [.....]
Pollution Abatement
Sewage systems, Paved
Roads, Garbage Collection,
Food and Water Regulation
VICTORIA PARK, BETHNAL GREEN. A plot of
pleasure-ground of 290 acres, planted and laid out
in the reign of the Sovereign whose name it bears.
The first cost of formation was covered by the
purchase-money of York House, St. James's,
received from the Duke of Sutherland, to whom the
remainder of the Crown lease was sold in 1841 for
72,0001. It is bounded on the south by Sir George
Ducket's canal, (sometimes called the Lea Union
Canal); on the west by the Regent's Canal; on the
east by Old Ford-lane, leading from Old Ford to
Hackney Wick; and on the north by an irregular line
of fields. It serves as a lung for the north-east part
of London, and has already added to the health
of the inhabitants of Spitalflelds and Bethnalgreen. The leases of building ground surrounding
the Park have been delayed till the roads and walks
become more perfect, and the plantations in a
more advanced state.
Peter Cunningham, Hand-Book of London, 1850