The Making Of Industrial Society

Migration

• Many people moved from Rural and countryside areas to Urban Areas,
• They worked for low wages in harsh conditions for many hours each day.
• Before, the Industrial Revolution, people specialized in making one thing.
• Only 3% of people lived in cities in 1800s before the Industraial Revolution,
• After the Industrial revolution 40% people in Europe moved to cities.

New Technology

• Textiles, cotton spinning machines.
• Steam power fueled new way of movement.
• Iron and steel made breakthroughs.
• Canals, Roads, Roadway helped people in transportation.
• Interchangaeble parts changed the workplace and people's jobs.

Role of women and children

• Women started working in factories.
• Children were forced to work and many did not attend school.
• Family life was boring because everybody was working.

Corporate Leadership

• Andrew Carnegie, created Carnegie steel.
• Eugene V debbs, leader of american railway union.
• Samuel Dodd, created business trust for Rockfellers.
• John D. Rockfeller, created Standard oil company

Trade Unions

• Trade unions were created to increase worker wages.
• To improve working conditions
• Increase Benefits, decrease duration of work.

New Social Classes

• Middle class - Business man and managers in factories.
• Upper Class - Factory Owners, High Professionals, Royals.
• Lower class - Factory workers.

Working Conditions in Factories

Long term Impacts

• Industrial revolution impacted the city structures.
• Many people moved to urban areas.
• People made interchangeable parts rather than specializing.
• Changed economic output of many developed countries.