1. Impact of the Industrial Revolution:
EQ: How did the Industrial Revolution change the loves of the people in Europe and beyond?

2. Industrialization Changes Life:
Factory Work
-Factories pay more than farms, spur demand for more expensive goods
-Jobs in the country-side were being replaced by the Agricultural Revolution

3. Urbanization:
Urbanization—city-building and movement of people to cities
Growing population provides work force and a market for factory goods
British industrial cities: London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool

6. Living Conditions
Sickness widespread; epidemics, like cholera, sweep urban slums
Life span in one large city is only 17 years
Wealthy merchants, factory owners live in luxurious suburban homes
Rapidly growing cities lack sanitary codes and building codes
Cities also without adequate housing, education, and police protection

8. High Crime
Murder Rates in Industrial Revolution London were 10 time that of modern London
No official police force
Gangs were incredibly powerful in many cities

9. JACK THE RIPPER:

10. Working Conditions
Average working day is 14 hours for 6 days a week, year round
Dirty, poorly lit factories injure workers
Child Labor
Many coal miners killed by coal dust

11. MINERS:

12. Class Tensions: Middle Class
Middle class —skilled workers, merchants, rich farmers, professionals
Emerging middle class looked down on by landowners and aristocrats
Middle class has comfortable standard of living

13. Class Tensions: Lower Class
Laborers’ lives not improved; some laborers replaced by machines
Luddites and other groups destroy machinery that puts them out of work
Unemployment is a serious problem; unemployed workers riot

14. Positive Effects of the Industrial Revolution
Immediate Benefits
Creates jobs, enriches nation, encourages technological progress
Education expands, clothing cheaper, diet and housing improve
Workers eventually win shorter hours, better wages and conditions
Long-Term Effects
Improved living and working conditions still evident today
Governments use increased tax revenues for urban developments