Labor Old and New: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution(s)
Be familiar with
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Be able to recognize, define, describe, memorize, recall
Assessed through matching, ordering or placing events in sequence or on a timeline,
fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice
Define “putting out system”; Luddites; Guilds; apprentice;
journeyman; guild masters; Reform Bill of 1832 (Britain);
Factories Act of 1833 (a.k.a. Althorp’s Act, Great Britain); Ten
Hours Act of 1847 (Great Britain); classical liberalism;
humanitarian liberalism; laissez faire; utilitariainism; Chartists;
trade unionism; socialism; communism
Recall why unionization not common in early decades of
industrialization
Recognize potential strengths and limitations of committee
testimony, work regulations, and labor laws as historical sources
Need to Know
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Be able to explain, paraphrase, compare, distinguish, interpret, summarize
Assessed through writing, multiple choice, and in some cases, ordering events
Distinguish life styles, living standards, and work conditions in preindustrial compared to industrial age including distinctions between
skilled and unskilled labor
Explain guild regulations and functions within pre-industrial society
Explain English Combination Acts and French Le Chapelier Law; Sadler
Committee
Differentiate Sadler Committee from Factory Commission (1833)
Explain political movements shaped by industrialization: liberalism,
unionism, socialism, communism
Distinguish between phases of the industrial revolution
Big Ideas (Formulated as Questions)
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Be able to interpret, evaluate, differentiate, organize, construct, formulate
Assessed through writing, discussion, debate
How did industrial labor differ from pre-industrial work?
How did such labor evolve?
What effects did the new labor have on the first generations of men, women
and children in Europe’s mills and mines?
Industrial Revolutions
Enlightenment Era
c. 1680s
Revolutions on European continent
Industrialization begins in German states
1848-49
Social Democratic Party forms (Gr) 1869
1873 Ironworks operating (Gr)
Eiffel Tower built (Fr) 1889
Lumière brothers build first portable movie 1895
camera (Fr)
1900
British Labour Party forms (GB)
GB=Great Britain
Gr= German-speaking states e.g. Prussia
Fr=France
US=United States
Textile Phase
First successful steamboat in U.S. 1807
Parliament passes law that imposes death
1811 Luddites begins (GB)
penalty on those who destroy machines (GB). 1812
1813 Luddites hanged (GB)
Faraday demonstrates electro-magnetic 1821
rotation (principle of electric motor) in Britain
Lyon’s skilled worker
1830s demand minimum wages
Liverpool-Manchester rail service begins (GB)
(Fr)
1830
3 major cotton mill centers flourishing (Fr)
1832 Sadler Committee (GB)
1833 Factories Act (GB)
1834 Customs Union (Gr)
Le Creusot ironworks flourishing (Fr) 1836
1780s
1789
1830s
1850s
1890s
c. 1900
Electrical Phase
1799 Combination Acts
Steam locomotive demonstrated (GB) 1801
1789
French
Revolution
1799
Era of Industrial Revolution
First power loom built in Britain 1787
Chemical Phase
Spinning Jenny: one workerspin 8 spindles (GB) 1764
Water framespinning machines (GB)
1769
James Watt refines steam engine patent (GB)
First steam powered mills (GB) 1779
Metallurgical Phase
1750
1910s
1930s