Industrial Revolution Society
Cristina Gonzalez
-Before industrialization, the vast majority of the people worked as cultivators or herders. The industrialization encourage the disappearance of slavery, partly because economics of industrial society did not favor slave labor, therefore not requiring it.
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New social class
-captains of industry and enterprising businessmen, aka the elite class, became wealthy and powerful enough to dominate over the military aristocracy and other traditionally privileged classes
-less powerful than the elite class was the middle class, which consisted of small business owners, factory managers, engineers, accountants, skilled employees of large corporations, and professionals such as teachers, physicians, and attorneys. -below the middle class was the working class. these consist of people who toiled in factories and mines. they were less skilled than the artisans and craftsmen of earlier times. they worked with the machinery or provided heavy labor for low wages. |
Industrial Families
-families also experienced change through the industrial revolution.
-in preindustrial, families would work together and contributed in welfare of the larger group.
-industrialization challenged the family economy and reshaped family life by moving the economic production outside the home and introducing a distraction between work and family life.
-in the early years of industrialization, family economies consisted of fathers, mothers, and children pooled their wages and sometimes even worked in the factories together. over time though, it became less common to have the families work in the same factory. workers would leave their homes to labor an average of 14 hours in factories, and family members lived increasingly different lives.
-in preindustrial, families would work together and contributed in welfare of the larger group.
-industrialization challenged the family economy and reshaped family life by moving the economic production outside the home and introducing a distraction between work and family life.
-in the early years of industrialization, family economies consisted of fathers, mothers, and children pooled their wages and sometimes even worked in the factories together. over time though, it became less common to have the families work in the same factory. workers would leave their homes to labor an average of 14 hours in factories, and family members lived increasingly different lives.
Gender Roles
men
- men increased in status during this time
- middle and upper class men were the sole providers of the family
- working class would use their leisure time at bars, sporting events, and gambling
women
- working women were unable to bring children in mines or factories
- many married women were unable to work because they would have to leave their home and kids
- women in the middle class were expected to stay home and take care of the house and children
- women became more independent, they could make money and move away from their families to create a better living
children
- many children in working families were forced to work in industries and contribute to the family support
- children would be sent to the mines or factories from dawn until sunset and the kids would be beaten in order for them to stay awake
- by the 1840s, the british parliament began to pass laws regulating child labor and set restrictions on children in industrial workforces
- men increased in status during this time
- middle and upper class men were the sole providers of the family
- working class would use their leisure time at bars, sporting events, and gambling
women
- working women were unable to bring children in mines or factories
- many married women were unable to work because they would have to leave their home and kids
- women in the middle class were expected to stay home and take care of the house and children
- women became more independent, they could make money and move away from their families to create a better living
children
- many children in working families were forced to work in industries and contribute to the family support
- children would be sent to the mines or factories from dawn until sunset and the kids would be beaten in order for them to stay awake
- by the 1840s, the british parliament began to pass laws regulating child labor and set restrictions on children in industrial workforces