Unit Readings:

Chapter 22

Chapters 20-22

Part I. Compose a fictional story (first- or third-person) depicting the life of a factory worker in mid-19^th-century industrial England. Your story should be interesting, enjoyable, and readable, but above all should demonstrate your understanding of industrialization’s impact and the major thinkers who offered responses to the changes and problems of the world of the factory.

Your story should make evident your understanding of the following …

Changing Industrial Methods & Organization

• Urbanization (population shift from rural areas to cities)

• Growth of railroads

• "Proletarianization"

• Introduction of standardized sizes/styles of products

• Banning of labor organizations (unions)

Changing Social Conditions & Legislation

• Employment of unmarried women and children in factories

• Efforts to protect laborers

• Factory Act of 1833

• 10-hour workday (1847)

• Breakdown of family as "unit of production"

• New gender roles among the working classes

• Man – Breadwinner

• Woman – Domestic duties

• Crime, the police, & prison reform

Changing Thoughts on the Industrial Revolution

• Thomas Malthus and population

• David Ricardo and the "Iron Law of Wages"

• Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism

• 1846 – Repeal of the Corn Laws

• Utopian socialists (Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, Blanc – refer to at least one)

• Proudhon and anarchism

• Marx, Engels, and The Communist Manifesto

Create a chart/diagram/picture that demonstrates your understanding of the rather complex revolutions of 1848. Be sure to include references to the following in your Graphic Organizer.

Your chart should explain, for each of the six revolutions, …

• The causes of the revolution (& the goals of the revolutionaries)
• The immediate, short-term (not necessarily permanent ) gains of the revolution
• How the revolutions were suppressed (or dealt with)
• Permanent changes resulting from the revolution

Your product might be as simple as the chart below, or more complex and personalized …