Industrial Revolution Working Conditions Development of British Cities
Industrial Revolution. Working Conditions
Development of British Cities § Migration to the Cities § Urbanization § Working Class Neighborhoods § Pollution § Disease § Life Expectancy
Working Conditions § British political ideology was a Laissez Faire or a free market system. § Government played zero to a very little role in the economy § Owners created the expectations of the workers § § No worker rights Low pay Long hours Dangerous conditions § Accidents § Children labor
Child Labor § Worked in areas where adults could fit due to their size § In between machines to change interchangeable parts § Mining in small tunnels § Chimney Sweeps § Low or No Pay § Child labor accidents § Huskar Pit § English Mine Act of 1852
United States: Strike and Unions § History on US Trade Unions § Rail Road Workers § AFL § What did AFL want? § Strikes § Garment Worker Strike of 1909 § Triangle Shirtwaist Company did not settle
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire § Brief overview of the building § Many problems existed § Fire § Cause? § Prevention Measures? § What happened during the Fire? § How did the victims died? § Effects from the Fire
United States Government Intervention § New York City enacted the Sullivan-Hoey Fire Prevention Law of 1911 § New York State legislatives created the Factory Investigating Commission § a watchdog agency that had sweeping powers to probe labor conditions throughout the state § The New York Reform Political Party § Fair Labor Standards Act of 1935
Assignment: § You will write two paragraphs that summarizes the lesson with details from the lecture.
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