What was the purpose of publishing the Sadler Report?
- expose substandard working conditions
What were some positive social effects of the Industrial Revolution?
- better standard of living
- jobs for working class --comfort
What were some positive economic effects of the Industrial Revolution?
- cheaper products that everyone could buy
- increase in world manufacturing output --money and progress
- European countries' creating and accumulating wealth --dominate international markets
Who felt the positive effects of the Industrial Revolution?
- factory owners
- upper middle class
- gov't
- landowners
- businesses
What were some negative social effects of the Industrial Revolution?
- slums --crowded, dirty, polluted
- child labor --forced to work to make money for family
- lack of education
- dependent on wealthy for livelihood
What were some negative economic/political effects of the Industrial Revolution?
- wage slavery
- transition from mercantile, agricultural society to capitalist, industrial society --gov't doesn't know how to respond
- disconnect between workers and factory owners
Who felt the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution?
- working poor
- factory workers
- lower class
How were factory conditions during the Industrial Revolution?
- overworked --terrible hours
- basic needs not met --no food or water, inhumane conditions
- not a living wage, plus men got twice as much as women
- no safety or medical care
What were the effects of urbanization?
- slums --Manchester, Liverpool also industrial centers
- overpopulation
How did the Industrial Revolution affect crop yields?
- starts to increase around Columbian Exchange
- spikes at invention of combustible engine
What is economy?
- currency --means to purchase things
- wealth --things of value, plus means to create
- trade --exports, imports
- capital --money to invest
- supply/demand
- business
- resources, production, transportation, markets
- jobs