Industrial Society

What is the Industrial Revolution?
The Industrial Revolution was a revolution in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transport, and technology in the 18-19 century

Technological Innovations

• Cotton gin
• Spinning Jenny
• Steam powered train
• Steamboat/ steam engine
• Textiles

why people wanted to move to the cities

• dust bowl era of Western drought
• More jobs
• Money

Working conditions in the factories

• Bad conditions
• 16 hrs a day, seven days a week
• Dirty, unsafe, crowded
• Low pay

Up to the Industrial Revolution people all over the world lived mainly in the countryside. In 1800, only 3 % of the world’s population lived in cities. In 1900 only 12 cities had more than 1 million people.

Many women were working in factories and down mines during the Industrial Revolution, often in appalling conditions. The invention of the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter, created many more jobs for women, since women were found to be more adpet than men at managing these appliances. Children also worked in factories but like women they were payed less. They often gotten injured from the machines, or caught a disease, or died.

The industrialization also led to the development of new social classes, a middle class emerged when entrepreneurs and businessmen gained such a vast wealth in this new industrial capitalism. Businesspeople became so wealthy that there became a large gap in income, and when the line between the now-rich and the now-middle class were once somewhat blurred the classes and their power were now distinct. The working class were people who worked long hours and received low pay in factories or textiles.

Labor Unions: Labor unions were developed to give workers a voice in the workplace. It set up specific rules about better working conditions for the Business owners.