17/01/16
Lesson 5: Consequences, Housing/Public Health and Assessment.
Learning Objective: I can evaluate the impact of the Industrial Revolution on families.
DA: What age do you believe children should be able to work and list the restrictions, ie, conditions and hours. Explain your reasoning.
Historical Background:
DA: What age do you believe children should be able to work and list the restrictions, ie, conditions and hours. Explain your reasoning.
Historical Background:
- Economic progress on a macro level seemed to be an immediate benefit to the upper class.
- Industrialization altered the nature of work and changed fortunes of ordinary people; safe drinking water was scarce and crowded housing engendered disease.
- Industrial Revolution generated inequalities of wealth and power. Created a growing gap between industrial countries and those whose economies remained mainly agricultural.
- As a result of urbanization, disease spread quickly in congested conditions. Homes were built in narrow streets, alleys, and courts, and lacked paving, lighting, and adequate water supply and sewage.
- Epidemics of contagious diseases were commonplace. Most working class homes were not connected to water, drains, or sewers.
- Privies were outside and several families would share one. No running water to flush the waste away.
- As a result of these poor living conditions, epidemics such as typhus, cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever were common.
- Knowledge that diseases were caused by germs did not become well known until later in the century.
- The 1832 cholera epidemic stirred the government into action but didn't come until 1848.
- Royal commission met in 1869 to investigate problems of public health to address changes "necessary for civilized social life".
- Advancements in farming practices yielded more food production supported by new transportation systems.
- People started marrying younger, more baby time.
- Factories wanted to employ more and more children.
- People were also healthier because a plentiful supplies of coal meant houses were warmer.
- Cotton clothes could be washed easier than wool, cheap soap, and medical advances resulted in a higher rate of fertility.
Unit Assessment: Download the following document and discuss instructions.
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