By Charlotte Bitschnau and Alexandra

Dossios

3 different classes…

Working/Lower Class:

• factories’ workers: men, women, and children

• no water supplies at home -> community pumps

• many diseases carried by dirty water

• underpaid

• worked in unsafe factories

• were worried about the new working machines coming up

• Working men set up illegal organisations to try and reform against the industrial improvements.

• many workers found comfort in a religious movement called Methodism, which was put up by John Wesley in the mid-1700’s

Middle Class

• Bourgeoisie

• merchants investing in factories

• inventors and skilled artisans who developed new

technologies

• women did not go to work but raised their children by

themselves at home

• spacious homes and ready supply of water

Upper Class

• factory owners

• large land owners

• capitalists

• financiers

• women did not go to work and had their children raised at

home by servants.