Effects of Industrialization
Topic Evidence of Positive Effects Evidence of Negative Effects Important People or Events
Working Conditions and Wages -People used machines, which made work faster and easier.
-People were regularly paid. -Dangerous working conditions (machines could be deleterious to body parts)
-Wages weren’t good compared to the hazardous working conditions. -Karl Marx, Socialism
-Friedrich Engels (The Condition of the Working Class), Socialism
-Labor Movements.
Child Labor
-Work efficiency and yield increased.
-Children were small and flexible, they could go anywhere -Body parts could be lost, followed by the job itself.
-No time for education, had to work for long hours with less pay. -Lewis Wikes Hine (Photographer who exposed it)
-Michael Sadler (Ten Hour Movement)