Impact of the Industrial Revolution

Impact of the Industrial Revolution

Discuss the following slides in your group using the homework reading

How did business owners benefit from

the Industrial Revolution?

How did workers benefit from the

Industrial Revolution?

How did the reading address the Lowell

Girls?

Lines 9-10Line 12

Use the reading to identify an example of Marx’s B vs. P struggle

How would you control your workers

and why?

1700 Shoemaker (home producing)

Skill

Dad leaves

What will be the new system of stratification in the US?

Was the Industrial Revolution positive or negative?

Positive Negative

Gilded Age 1880s

Women

Immigration

African Americans

Labor

Laissez Faire

Why hire children?

Unions BeginAmerican Federation of Labor: Created in 1886 by Samuel Gompers. Union addressed skilled laborer issues.

Knights of Labor: Created in 1869. Allowed women and African Americans. The union addressed the concerns of unskilled laborers.

IWW: Wanted a restructuring of the class and wage system.

Union Concerns

Business Concerns?