History Chart
Alejandra Fernandez
AP European History
2/11/2014
Use textbook pages 652-666 and the provided Industrial Revolution Document Packets
Effects of Industrialization and the Factory System
Explain how Industrialization and the rise of the Factory System changed the way people lived and worked. Keep in mind the following groups of people: factory workers, cottage workers, wealthy merchants, factory owners, children, women, craftsmen/artisans.
Positive changes/results/conditions
Negative changes/results/conditions
Factory Workers
Jobs did not require an education= anyone could get a job.
More people could work.
Trade Union Movement: The bad conditions and low wages factory workers endured led to the rise of trade unions. Although for many years unions were illegal, those laws were ignored. Strikes could be effective if they were in a large enough scale so Robert Owen envisioned unions on a national level ( Grand National Consolidated Trade Union).
The government did eventually intervene with their Factory Acts (England) from 1802-1819 and the ones in 1833 which limited the workday for 9-13 year olds to 8 hours and limited everyone else's to 10 hours (10 Hour Act). It also forbid employment to children under 9 and required all children to have a reading and math education. Also no boys under 10 and no women were allowed to work in mines.
Horrible conditions:
-Super long work days (up to 16 hours)
-Only half hour lunch break for most workers and few had a dinner break at all.
-Because there was a huge amount of people that needed jobs wages were close to nothing and there was no set minimum wage.
-Machinery and crowding in factories made them very hot and some had no windows.
-No job security- managers could (and threatened to) fire workers for any tiny small thing they did wrong (such as looking out the window or talking too much).
-Many factories didn't have bathrooms just holes off to the side= gross.
-Factories were extremely dirty
AP European History
2/11/2014
Use textbook pages 652-666 and the provided Industrial Revolution Document Packets
Effects of Industrialization and the Factory System
Explain how Industrialization and the rise of the Factory System changed the way people lived and worked. Keep in mind the following groups of people: factory workers, cottage workers, wealthy merchants, factory owners, children, women, craftsmen/artisans.
Positive changes/results/conditions
Negative changes/results/conditions
Factory Workers
Jobs did not require an education= anyone could get a job.
More people could work.
Trade Union Movement: The bad conditions and low wages factory workers endured led to the rise of trade unions. Although for many years unions were illegal, those laws were ignored. Strikes could be effective if they were in a large enough scale so Robert Owen envisioned unions on a national level ( Grand National Consolidated Trade Union).
The government did eventually intervene with their Factory Acts (England) from 1802-1819 and the ones in 1833 which limited the workday for 9-13 year olds to 8 hours and limited everyone else's to 10 hours (10 Hour Act). It also forbid employment to children under 9 and required all children to have a reading and math education. Also no boys under 10 and no women were allowed to work in mines.
Horrible conditions:
-Super long work days (up to 16 hours)
-Only half hour lunch break for most workers and few had a dinner break at all.
-Because there was a huge amount of people that needed jobs wages were close to nothing and there was no set minimum wage.
-Machinery and crowding in factories made them very hot and some had no windows.
-No job security- managers could (and threatened to) fire workers for any tiny small thing they did wrong (such as looking out the window or talking too much).
-Many factories didn't have bathrooms just holes off to the side= gross.
-Factories were extremely dirty