Consequences of Industrialism

Negatives

• Slums
• Disease (tuberculosis, cholera)
• Overcrowding
• No heat/running water in slums
• Defective water
• Factories – legislation – had to improve labour situation
• Dangers in factories – child labour
• Oppressive labour unions
• Smog ( bad air quality because factories were burning coal and thus creating severe air pollution)

Positives

• First factory act 1802 – limits child labour to 12 hours/day in cotton mills
• Workers protested the bad practices of certain bosses
• Ten hours act for adults, especially women
• Police force in Great Britain – Robert Peel, as Prime Minster reduced crime rate with new police force, affectionately known as “Bobbies”
• Poor laws – relief provided for poor and/or separated men and women
• Great Reform Bill – voting system, electoral reform allowed workers to have some say
• Import tax on grain in England put more food into to the general circulation