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Adair AP European (3) Chapter 21: Economic advance and Social Unrest (654-658) Family Structure and the industrial Revolution Industrialization varied in location. o Great Britain had a family industry. The Family in the Early Factory Systems Adoption of machinery didnt mean destroy working class o Before a family income would come from home but during the industrial revolution it came from home and at work. In the textile production parent worked with kids as a family unit. o Family was disciplined at home and at work. o Familys often moved closer to the factory to work together. o Still discrimination between races and genders even though woman technically made more than men. Shift in family and factory structure changed in mid 1820s o Factories sizes grew. o Jobs required les skill so more unmarried woman children worked,(often payed less) o Waged for skilled fathers were high so there family didnt need to work and the sons could go to school. Concerns for Child Labor Parental disciple was weakening in the factories. The English factory act of 1833 forbade the employment of children under and kids call only work a max of 9 hours a day. o Workdays= adults, 12hours=teenagers and kids had 4-5 hour shifts o Factories required to pay for at least a 2 hour of education. British adult workers wanted shorter workdays so they could spend time with their family. Parliament mandated a 10 hour work day which was considered fair back then. Changing Economic Role for the Family As family hanged from being a unit of both production and consumption to a unit of only consumption o Families were less closely bounded and lived apart while family in industrial city remained united. Woman in the Early Industrial Revolution During the 19th century, the domestic division of labor into separate wale and female spheres prevailed among the working class. Opportunities and Exploitation in Employment Women services were need throughout the industrial revolution. Women in Factories The majority of workers in factories were unmarried woman.

Factories required less of school from employees. o The tended to a machine not very often but it allowed new opportunities to appear. o Married didnt need job for a income they just wanted to work o Widowers needed money. Factories disliked hiring woman from time to time because of their obligations as bearing bodies. Work in the Land and in the Home By mid 19th century, women who worked on the land or as domestic servants were physically and sexually exploited. o Low wages led to prostitution to earn a income. o Low skilled jobs. o Charwomen wash hired to clean the house , common job across the continent Louis Aston a German political radical described this situation in a poem. o Looked at the experience at a Silesian weaver as she confront her boss where family buys fabric that the wove. o Sexual explication was not new but due to the economy desperate times called for desperate measures. Changing Expectation in the Working-Class Marriage Parental control over marriages decreases. One a woman married her finically income usually increased and quit her job unless her in the future her husband was no longer in the picture. Most of the traditional practices didnt change. o Women were expected to be in the domestic services. o A girl would usually work to earn enough money for a dowry for a better life. Marriage became less of an economic reason. Wage economy made it hard for women to have balance domestic and work responsibilities. Woman only worked so there children didnt have to. o The only worked when the need the money or to help other family members.