Hardships

Chapter 7.3

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Industrial Cities

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Worker Housing in Manchester

Worker Housing in Manchester

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Urbanization

• Manchester

–17,000 in 1750s

–40,000 in 1780

–70,000 in 1801

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Consequences

• Pollution

• Noisy

• Stench

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Poor Concerns/Problems

• Slums/ tenement

• No water

• No sewage

• Cholera & disease spread

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The Life of the New Urban Poor: A Dickensian Nightmare!

The Life of the New Urban Poor: A Dickensian Nightmare!

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Tenements

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Factory System

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Discipline/ Work Conditions• 12-16 hour work day

• No safety

• Coal mines– lungs

• Textile– air w/ lint

• Sick/injured– lost job

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Women Workers• Women adapt easier than

men

• Paid less than a man

• Prob w/ women out of home--- still have to “work” @ home: clean, cook, clothe family

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Child Labor• Textile mills

• Narrow mine shafts

• Family needs wage to keep from starving

• Hire orphans

–Deal w/ local officials

• Parliament begins labor laws 1830- 1840s

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Working Class

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Protest

• Machines cost jobs

• Luddites- rioters of machines in U.K.

• Soldiers respond

• Forbid organizing & bargaining

• Strikes outlawed

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Spread of Methodism

• John Wesley

• Hymns/sermons

• Personal faith– forgiveness & better to come

• Salvation message to slums

• Sunday school- read & write Bible

• Channel anger– rev– social reform

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Middle Class

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“Upstairs”/“Downstairs Life”

“Upstairs”/“Downstairs Life”

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Traits

• Homes• Dress ate well• Gain influence w/

Parliament–Oppose improving

conditions for workers

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“Ladylike”

• No work

–Factory

–Home (hire maid)

• Educate daughter to be “ladylike”

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Values

• Hard work

• Determination

• Poor were lazy/ignorant– they couldn’t work their way out of poverty

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