Responses to Industrialization

Who was a part of the growing working class?

• Factory Workers

• Agricultural Laborers

• Middle Class Women

• N/A

Who was a part of the growing Middle Class?

• Managers in factories

• office workers

• white collar workers

• Factory Owners

Which statement describes many middle class women who did not need to work?

• limited to roles in the household or roles focused on child development.

• Lived a life of leisure and luxury; attended parks and rode bicycles

• Did not work-- many stayed single and became social workers and activists

• N/A

What was the life of the working class like?

• 14-16 hour shifts

• six-day work weeks

• dangerous working conditions and low pay

• none benefitted from industrialization

Why did factory owners employ so many women and children?

• could be paid less than men

• cut the cost of production

• 90% of factories were textile-- they were better at threading

• All of the Above

Which of the following best explains the causes of the calls for changes in industrial societies from 1750-1900.

• low wages

• Child labor

• dangerous conditions

• Working hoirs

• all of the above

Wat would workers do to gain better pay and working conditions?

• Form labor unions

• Go on strike

• both methods were used

What other social and economic changes were brought about during industrial capitalism

• Womens voting rights

• sanitation reforms

• Child labor laws

• advocation of socialism and communism

• restoration of monarchs

Which of the following were views of Karl Marx

• upper classes exploited the lower classes

• developed theory of communism

• advocated a classless society that shared all wealth equally

• He felt the working class, the proletariat, should control the means of production

• Thought his ideas could be implemented peacefully

Who is this?

• Karl Marx

• Writer of the Communist Manifesto

• John Locke

• Writer of the Socialist Manifesto