Industrial+Revolution+Themes

**To what extent did the Industrial Revolution revolutionize European society?**

 * **Economics**
 * Craft Union and Grand National Union are created
 * Craft Union is also known as the Skilled Workers Union.
 * mainly concerned about themselves, don't want their children to be in competition with the rest of society.
 * Does not want unskilled workers because they will take their money.
 * POWER IN SKILL
 * Grand National was much bigger than the Craft Union
 * POWER IN NUMBERS
 * They help pass the Ten Hours Act and desperately want male suffrage because they want Government Power.
 * **Political power**
 * **National**
 * **International**
 * **Social Classes**
 * **Gender Roles**
 * Married women were much less likely to work full time because of children, and if they did work full time it was because they were from the poorest of families.
 * Women who had children found that keeping their home together and taking care of their children was a job in itself. This is where the men began to bring in most of the income.
 * Women found the need to stay at home with their children.
 * Prepare meals
 * Wash Clothes
 * Clean the house.
 * When women worked, they would come home and be too tired to do all of these chores.
 * Women and children's working priveleges/rights became somewhat limited because laws were passed in order to keep them from working a lot.
 * The Factory Act limited children's work hours.
 * The Mines Act of 1842 prohibited work for boys and women.
 * The women were being sexually harrassed or just involved in more sexual activity and this cause a population growth which was needed to be stopped.
 * Led to unexpected and unwanted pregnancies.
 * Women found it very difficult to find high-paying jobs outside of the home because men took all of the jobs. Men monopolized the system.
 * **Urbanization**

**What are the various stages of the Industrial Revolution?**

 * **Why did it start in England? A Few Core ideas:**
 * **Private Profit & Economic Development were prioritized and accepted as the ultimate object of government policy.**
 * **Commercially Minded Landlords**
 * **Manufacture diffused through a non feudal country side**
 * **Agriculture prepared to carry out its three fundamental functions:**
 * **To Increase production & Productivity in order to sustain an ever increasing non agricultural population**
 * **To provide a large and rising surplus of potential recruits for the towns and industries**
 * **to provide a mechanism for the accumulation of capital to be used in the more modern sectors of the economy**


 * How did the Revolution develop and spread?
 * Why did it look different in different parts of Europe?**