- technological innovations
- greatest breakthrough steam engine
- transformation of agriculture
- appeared first in great Britain
- Britain was most commercialized
- farmers pushed out of farms
- aristocrats interested in commerce
- railroad system
- middle class had most gains
Women
- many women began working
- were being paid less than men
- women "stealing" jobs from men
- after marriage tried leaving paid labor
Effects of Revolution
- overpopulation
- began producing more at less of a price
- jobs were dangerous
- increase in child labor
- many left homes in farms to go work
- quality of products decreased
The Laboring Classes
- 70% of people working
- suffered most
- benefited least from revolution
- fast urbanization
- bad sanitation
- long hours
- low wages
- child labor
- woman would work
Social Protest
- wreck machinery
- burned mills
- trade unions legalized
- labor protest
