Global Awareness

Unit 12 Assignment – Impact of Industrialization and Revolt

 

Unit Readings:

Western Heritage: Chapter 22

MEH: Chapters 20-22

 

Part I:

 

Compose a fictional story (first or third person) depicting the life of a factory worker in the mid-19^th century industrial England. Your story should be interesting, enjoyable, and readable, but above all should demonstrate your understanding of industrialization’s impact and the major thinkers who offered responses to the changes and problems of the world in the factory.

 

                Your story should make evident your understanding of the following…

 

Changing Industrial Standards & Organization:

• Urbanization (population shift from rural areas to cities)
• Growth of railroads
• “Proletarianization”
• Introduction of standardized sizes/styles of all products
• Banning of labor organizations (onions)

 

Changing Social Conditions & Legislation

 

• Employment of unmarried women and children in factories
• Efforts to protect laborers

 

• Factory Act of 1833
• 10-hour workday (1847)

 

• Breakdown of family as “unit of production”
• New gender roles among the working class
• Man – Breadwinner
• Woman – Domestic duties

 

• Crime, the police, & prison reform

 

Changing Thoughts on the Industrial Revolution

 

• Thomas Malthus and  population
• David Ricardo and the “Iron Law of Wages”
• Jeremy Bentham and utilarianism
• 1846 – Repeal of the Corn Laws
• Utopian socialists (Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, Blanc – refer to at least one)
• Proudhon and anarchism
• Marx, Engels, and The Communist Manifesto

 

Part II: Revolutions of 1848 Graphic Organizer

 

Create a chart/diagram/picture that demonstrates your understanding of the rather complex revolutions of 1848. Be sure to include references to the following in your graphic organizer.

 

FRANCE (“The February Revolution”)	AUSTRIA	HUNGARY
King Louis Philippe Louis Blanc & National Workshops The Second Republic The June Days Louis Napoleon Bonaparte	Prince Metternich Prince Felix Schwarzenberg Emperor Ferdinand Emperor Francis Joseph Robot (Serf Labor Requirement)	Magyars Louis Kossuth The March Laws Magyarization
BOHEMIA (Part of Austrian Empire)	GERMAN STATES	ITALY (Milan and Roman Republic)
Pan-Slavic Congress	Prussian King Frederick William IV German National Assembly (The Frankfurt Parliament) Grossdeutsch Solution Kleindeutsch Solution “Humiliation of Olmutz”	Charles Albert of Piedmont The Roman Republic Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont Louis Napoleon of France

 

 

Your chart should explain, for each of the six revolutions …

 

• The causes of the revolution (& the goals of the revolutionaries)
• The immediate, short-term (not necessarily permanent) gains of the revolution
• How the revolutions were surpressed (or dealth with)
• Permanent changes resulting from the revolution

 

Your product might be as simple as the chart below, or more complex and personalized …

 

	FRANCE	AUSTIRA	HUNGARY (Part of the Austrian Empire)	BOHEMIA  (part of Austrian Empire)	GERMAN STATES	ITALY (Milan and the Roman Republic)
The causes (& goals of the revolution)
The short-term gains of the revolution
How the revolutions were suppressed (or dealt with)