THE MAKING OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS

• John Kay's the "flying shuttle"
• James Hargreaves' "Spinning jenny"
• James Watt's "steam engine"
• Robert Fulton's "steam boat"
• Stephensen's "steam-powered train"

REASONS WHY PEOPLE MOVED TO CITIES

• Wanted a better life
• More jobs in cities
• Factories and coal mines
• Easier than rural farm life

WORKING CONDITIONS IN FACTORIES

• Long working hours, sometimes as much as 14 hours a day
• Little to no breaks with little food and water, only a little bread at lunch
• Had to work dangerous machinery where accidents were common
• Harsh discipline, beatings by factory managers happened often
• Fast working pace, hard to use machinery

CORPORATE LEADERS

• Were very greedy, had lots of money
• Andrew Carnegie, owned entire steel industry
• John Rockefeller, monopolized the petroleum industry
• Cornelius Vanderbilt, influential w/ the railroad industry

RURAL VS. URBAN - 1800