The Industrial Revolution INDUSTRIALIZATION CHANGES Transportation Family life

The Industrial Revolution

INDUSTRIALIZATION • CHANGES – Transportation – Family life – Reform movements

Transportation • Railroads – Used steam engines -unified economies by linking regions

Railroads connected Europe

Changes in Europe From farm to Factory

Changes to family life • Shift from the family working as farmers or craftsman to families working in factories • Child labor • Less time spent with family • Families moved from villages into towns and cities • Crowded, small apartments: Tenements • RISE IN CITY CRIME -Gangs

Family Life suffered • Less access to fresh water and sunlight • Spread of diseases like cholera and typhus

For most children industrialization meant – Factory Work, shift work & Child Labor

Social Reforms • In England, Parliament passed laws – Banning women and children from working in the mines – Limited work hours to 10 hours per day – For safer working conditions Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert worked to help the poor

Municipal Reforms Improvements to life in the cities

Municipal Improvements Improved water supply, sewage system and trash collection

Sewer systems

Municipal Reforms Public School Systems

Municipal Reforms Sir Robert Peel’s London “Bobbies” City police forces to reduce crime

LABOR REFORMS • Workers organized UNIONS to get – – – Better wages Improve working conditions Used STRIKES to achieve goals