The Industrial Revolutions
Major Unit Lessons:
- The First Industrial Revolution
- Capitalism, Socialism & Marxism
- World's System Theory
- Secondary Industrial Revolutions
- Life in the 20th Century "West"
- The Anthropocene and Easter Islands: Making Connections
Pros and Cons of the IR: 3.2's Review
1. What were some of the “hardships” presented with the development of the Industrial Revolution in Britain and other industrializing nations?
Bonus Opportunity: Answer any or all
1. What were some of the “hardships” presented with the development of the Industrial Revolution in Britain and other industrializing nations?
- Pollution, urbanization and tenements, unemployment and low-wages
- Unsafe working conditions, long hours, child labor
- Crime increase, disease, violence
- Efficiently produced commodities become more affordable
- More travel and leisure opportunities
- Eventually, more personal income from better wages
- Strikers vs. scabs, labor unions (from guilds!) and VOTING!
Bonus Opportunity: Answer any or all
- •How did notions of “free trade” change from the era of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nation to the era of wage-labor (1800s)?
- •What explains the growth in wealth gap between CEO’s and employees?
- •How is teacher compensation (wage) different than other professions in America?
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Easter Island & the Anthropocene
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Introduction to the Anthropocene |
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