The Making of Industrial Society

Technological Innovations

• The Steam Engine, by James Watt
• Cotton Gin, by Eli Whitney
• Diesel Engine, by Rudolf Diesel
• Telephone, by Alexander Graham Bell
• Phonograph, Thomas Edison

Why move to the city?

• The cities have new factories which is a resultant of the industrial revolu
• Factories bring more workers and buyers, resulting in profit.
• The workers in the urban area have more income than to those of the rural.
• More factories emerge because of the profit, and more workers move to the c

Working conditions of the workers

• Super extra long hours of labor.
• Some workplaces was super hot and steamy.
• Exposed to moving parts of heavy machinery.
• Children's mortality rate was high because of ^^^.

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• Andrew Carnegie
• John Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Rural population during 1800

The role of women and children

• Children were the ones to be mostly hired at the beginning.
• They were uneducated, therefore making it easy to
• for them to work more, and get paid less.
• They were also be able to fit inside machinery where men couldn't.
• Women were allowed to work as equal to how a man did his work with same inc

The social Classes (respectively)

• Factory owner (Upper class)
• Doctor, factory manager (Middle class)
• Factory worker (Working class)
• Sunken people (Under class)

Trade union

• Right to bargain.
• Right to bargain for better conditions of workers.
• Higher pay.
• Increase of employees and employer hires.