Unit 10 - The Industrial Revolution
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.
Bill Gates
After reading the Industry and Society Section you should understand:
Industrialization and its impact on labor and the family.
The changing role of women in industrial society, the condition of women, the cult of domesticity,
The rise of political feminism.
Problems of crime and the response of police forces and prisons.
Urban development programs, including sanitation systems and housing reform.
The impact of the Second Industrial Revolution.
After reading the Industrial Political Response Section you should understand
Classical economics and its theorists.
The development of socialism and radical reform
The development of political socialism and the entry of workers into politics.
The extent of Jewish emancipation.
Textbook Reading Sections
Industry and Society – p 347-359, p 415- 427
Primary Readings - Change in the Economy and Society
The Great Exhibition in London (image) p. 349
Secondary
The Irish Potato Famine
Outside Primary Readings
Women Industrial Workers Explain Their Economic Situation
A Frenchwoman Writes to Her Father About Marriage
Bicycles: Transportation, Freedom and Sport
Textbook Reading Sections
Industrial Political Reaction- p. 359-363, p. 427-440
Primary Readings - Industrial Political Reactions
Bloody Sunday, St. Petersburg 1905 (image) p. 439
Bernstein and Lenin Debate the Tactics of European Socialism p 436-437
Bernstein Urges Socialists to Embrace Socialism
Lenin Argues for a Secret and Elite Party of Professional Revolutionaries
Secondary
The Abolition of Slavery in the Transatlantic Economy- p 375- 380
Outside Primary Readings
Why Women Desire The Franchise
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Describe the Class Struggle
Eduard Bernstein Criticizes Orthodox Marxism
Lenin Argues For the Necessity of A Secret and Elite Party of Professional Revolutionaries
Potential Industry and Society LEQ Questions
Analyze the key developments that characterized the European economy in the second half of the 19th century.
Describe the physical transformation of European cities in the second half of the nineteenth century and analyze the social consequences of this transformation.
Potential Industrial Political Response LEQ Questions
Discuss the ways European Jews were affected by, and responded to, liberalism, nationalism, and anti-Semitism in the 19th century.
Compare and contrast the roles of British working women in the pre-industrial economy (before 1750) with their roles in the era 1850 to 1920.
Compare and contrast conservatism, nationalism, and liberalism.
Evaluate the effectiveness of collective responses by workers to industrialization in Western Europe during the course of the 19th Century.
How and in what ways did the writings of Karl Marx draw on the enlightened concepts of progress, natural law, and reason?