Margo said 1/22...

okay its my first time,(obviously) but im gona try and do a good job here.
so today Mrs. separ split us into the same groups as yesterday where we read documents about the effect of the industrial revolution. i would go into detail about yesterdays discussion but there was none. so... today we we started off by talking about cotton and how britian main source of it was the U.S. and India. later. because there was little profit, great Britain taxed than banned Indian cotton. then we talked about the documents im going to do it as if each line is a bullet point

Living conditions
there were more women working in factors
the factory owners preffered women because they did the same work as men for half the pay
because the women worked the domestic jobs were pushed to the side and children worked too
the role of women became an issue as the issue of who does the domestic jobs came forward

pollution
there were dirty, overpopulated city's
increased tenement housing without plumbing meant more waste in the streets
closer housing meant quicker spread of disease
it is where the idea of slums came from

common problems
people worked but didn't get enough to sustain their familys
almost all attempts at strike resulted in pay cuts
there was no workmans comp
worked 15-16 hours with only a 30 min break for each meal
work was very dangerous

improvements during the I.R.
later they made unions for factory workers
there was constantly better technology
the capacity of steam engines increased
life expectancy increased
there was more medicine and hospitals

other important information
as the middle class got better the lower class got worse
while life expectancy went up in Japan Russia the us and Britain it stayed the same in Africa and Asia
there is more exports from the us and gb to non-industrialised countries
britian takes over india because it is easier than paying for their natural resources
there are ,later, benefiets for workers like workmens comp
there were public health billes that specified the need for like and clean water and streets
there were vaccines that were required
there were more rail roads as the need for them arose
also the telegraph was used making comunication easier and faster
while earlier poor farmers could use wealthy mens land the enclosure acts stopped it
the people learned crop rotation
there was new farming technology
the government suported the revolution so the advancements in technology science and medicine were huge

thats about the gist of it
the next to blog will be alex please unless he already went im not to sure of all the names yet