The Social Impact of Industrialization
HWH UNIT 6CHAPTER 7.3
Manchester: One of the First Industrialized Cities
Population1750: 18,0001850:
300,000Life Span, 1843Laborer: 17
(38)Trader: 20
(41)Gentry: 38
(52)
New Classes EmergeThe Industrial Middle Class
EntrepreneursFactory owners Innovators/inventors“Rags to riches”Laissez-faire
The Industrial Working Class
Urban poorUnskilled, uneducatedLived in cramped,
crowded tenments
The Luddites (early 19th century)