the making of industrial society

Innovations

• spinning jenny:Hargreaves
• Cromptons mule: crompton
• Steam engine: Watts

Why did they move to the city?

• More money
• More jobs
• Potato Famine

Conditions in factories

• disease spread fast
• long hours of working
• low pay

corporate leaders that led companies with monopolies

• Rockefeller oil company
• Andrew Carnegy - standard oil company
• IG farben

percentages of people

• 80% of people lived in an rural area
• 3% of people lived in an urban area

ROLE OF WOMAN during the industrial revolution

• middle class: The women stayed home and did housework and the children went to school
• working class: Both the women and children worked in factories to help support their families

Social Classes

• working class: factory jobs
• middle class: business, teachers, lawyers

GOALS OF NEW TRADE UNIONS

• Better pay
• Better working conditions