Wednesday, February 9, 2011
3.2.1.
Three things I learned:
1. I learned more about how unions work, and what they generated from, which was from the factory workers demanding for a cleaner work environment, less hours, and higher wages. I linked this information to the Union i knew, which works around the city of Williamsport, and understood more of what they do and how they work.
2. I also learned how the Industrial Revolution began, by the farming methods being improved, which then lead to agricultural revolution.
3. Another fact that i learned, was that the Industrial Revolution created the middle class in society, by this revolution bringing in money into the countries and a social class of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers who formed the middle class.
Two things i found interesting:
1. I found the child labor in the 1800's very interesting when i compared them to todays day and age where no person is allowed to have a legitimate job until they are sixteen years of age.
2. I found it interesting also what the long-term effects of the Industrial Revolution are still influencing us today. For example most people today in those industrialized countries can afford those consumer goods which were actually luxuries around fifty to hundred years ago
One question I still have:
1. How come the Industrial Revolution did not start in the United States but in Great Britain?
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