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consequences of the Industrial Revolution
New machines (in agriculture and industry)
unemployment --> reduction of agricultural workers
depopulation of rural areas --> people leave their house to look for a job and they suffer from starvation
Factory workers
bad working conditions (badly-paid, badly-fed, badly-clothed)
appalling hygiene and safety conditions / terrible work shift (up to 16 hours a day)
everyone could work (men, women and children)
women were less paid than men, they were discriminated
Child labour
children worked in mines (they could crawl through tunnels) --> they were exploited, underpaid (child exploitation)
City
overcrowded, polluted
slums
there were problems like alcoholism and illnesses
the death rate was very high
lack of hygiene and safety
Reforms
Trade Unions (1824)
First socialist reform led by Robert Owen
women's condition
Women had few rights, they lived in a patriarcal society, they were not educated as men, there was a rigid code of sexual and social behaviour (especially for upper-middle classes)
Women were subjected to discrimination
Mary Wollstonecraft, pioneer of feminism and writer of
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(1792).
new concern for social problems