The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution

People Move to New Cities

New Social Classes EmergeThe Industrial Revolution created a new middle class, or bourgeoisie.

Middle-class families lived in well-furnished, spacious homes on paved streets and had a ready supply of water.

The Industrial Working ClassLived in peasant neighborhoods, foul-smelling slums.

They packed into tiny tenements.

Life in the Factories and Mines

Miners Face Worse ConditionsThey worked in darkness and the coal dust destroyed their lungs.

There were explosions, flooding, and collapsing tunnels.

Industrialization

Benefits Challenges

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Witness History VideoIn Old New York

– life during the Industrial Revolution.

New Ways of ThinkingSection 4 pg 184 - 188

Outline: New Ideas about Society and Economics I. Laissez-faire economics

A. Adam Smith and free enterprise1.2.

II. Malthus on populationA. Malthus holds bleak view

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B. Ricardo shares view1.2.

III. Utilitarians for limited government A. Goal of society should be “the greatest

happiness for the greatest number.”

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IV. Socialist thought emerges

A. Focus should be on the good of society in

general, not on individual rights.

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B. Socialists establish utopian communities.

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V. Karl Marx explains class struggle

A. New theory of “scientific socialism” is based on scientific study of history.

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VI. Marxism in the future

A. Marxism briefly flourishes.

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B. Marxism loses appeal.

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