IndustrialRevolutionPowerPointPresentation.ppt

Note: This is a complicated issue. The presence of women and children in factories, doing the same work as men for less pay, was a threat to men. Limiting the employment of women and children brought job security to men. It is easy to fall into the trap of labeling an end to child labor, and equal pay for women, altruistic when these actions benefited men quite a lot. Note: Women continue to relocate to cities more than men. In New York City, there are approximately 100 adult women for every 85 adult men. A good discussion might focus on why women continue to be attracted to large urban areas. * Note: Queen Anne ruled while England’s empire was budding. As the empire grew and expanded, England’s type of patent law spread throughout its colonies (the future United States, Canada, Australia, etc.). * Note: Silas Marner by George Eliot describes the changing textile industry due to technological advances. * Note: Pullman in Chicago, Illinois, is an excellent example of a well-intentioned factory town being disliked by workers. * Note: Under employers’ weapons, “relocation,” “outsourcing,” and “threat of foreign competition” are relatively new, coming into play in the last quarter of the twentieth century. These weapons make for a lively classroom discussion. For example, students might examine reasons why automobile manufacturing plants have relocated to nonunionized southern states, the number of automobiles imported into the United States each year, and the number of parts (engines, transmissions, etc.) which are no longer made at an individual automobile plant but are instead made by smaller, nonunionized suppliers. * Note: It should be made clear that the workplace rights and limitations of women and children (and of workers as a whole) were gained incrementally. Teachers may choose to insert a slide listing that legislation of which they more specifically want students to be aware. * Note: The German government instituted social reforms to stop the spre