Warm Up Social impacts of industrial revolution Factory Production Factories and growth of cities Most factories were built close to energy sources Water Coal Industrial centers emerge Factory Production ID: 597269
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What are the 3 “factors of production” or Goldilocks conditions that made England the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution? Explain each.
Warm UpSlide2
Social impacts of industrial revolutionSlide3
Factory ProductionSlide4
Factories and growth of cities
Most factories were built close to energy sources
Water
Coal
Industrial centers emergeSlide5
Factory Production
Concentrates production in one
place [materials, labor].
Located near sources of power
[rather than labor or markets].
Requires a lot of capital investment
[factory, machines, etc.] more
than skilled labor.Slide6
Textile Factory Workers in England Slide7
Factory System
Rigid schedule.
12-14 hour
day, 6 days a week
Dangerous conditions
. No laws to protect workers
Mind-numbing monotony.Slide8Slide9Slide10
UrbanizationSlide11
Rise of cities
Industrial Revolution gave rise to urbanization
Rapid growth of cities
Number of European cities with populations 100,000+ more than doubled between 1800-1850Slide12
Life in the big city
Overcrowded
Lack of sanitation
Lack of education
Lower life expectancy in the
slums
We will explore the conditions more tomorrow…Slide13Slide14Slide15Slide16
Life in English FactoriesSlide17
English Factory System
First adopted in England in the 1750s, as a method for manufacturing
Involved mass producing goods by machines usually run by water or steam
Featured low and unskilled workers running machines, or moving materials
Lowered costs of goodsSlide18
Factory Reform Legislation
Between 1800 and 1850, Parliament passed a series of laws to regulate factory work.
Many of these laws focused on protecting children working in factories, and set limits on the amount of hours that children could work in factories.
The Factory Act of 1850, for example, limited the weekly hours that children could work to 60 and daily hours to 10.5
.Slide19
Factory Reform Legislation
Throughout this period, several commissions investigated working conditions in factories.
Politicians, academics, doctors, and other public figures wrote books, pamphlets, speeches, and newspaper articles
in support
of
or against
regulating the country’s growing factory system.Slide20
Central Historical Question
Were
textile factories bad for the health of English workers?