1. The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution

2. People Move to New Cities

3. New Social Classes Emerge
The Industrial Revolution created a new middle class, or bourgeoisie.
Middle-class families lived in well-furnished, spacious homes on paved streets and had a ready supply of water.

4. The Industrial Working Class
Lived in peasant neighborhoods, foul-smelling slums.
They packed into tiny tenements.

5. Life in the Factories and Mines

6. Miners Face Worse Conditions
They worked in darkness and the coal dust destroyed their lungs.
There were explosions, flooding, and collapsing tunnels.

7. Industrialization Benefits Challenges - Created jobs -
- Crowded Cities

8. – life during the Industrial Revolution.
Witness History Video
In Old New York
– life during the Industrial Revolution.

9. New Ways of Thinking Section 4 pg 184 - 188
Outline: New Ideas about Society and Economics
I. Laissez-faire economics
A. Adam Smith and free enterprise 1. 2.
II. Malthus on population
A. Malthus holds bleak view 3.
B. Ricardo shares view

10. III. Utilitarians for limited government
A. Goal of society should be “the greatest
happiness for the greatest number.” 1. 2.
IV. Socialist thought emerges
A. Focus should be on the good of society in
general, not on individual rights.
B. Socialists establish utopian communities.

11. V. Karl Marx explains class struggle
A. New theory of “scientific socialism” is based on scientific study of history. 1. 2.
VI. Marxism in the future
A. Marxism briefly flourishes. 3.
B. Marxism loses appeal.