Citizens and steam engines - 5.2

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Program for today!

- Workplanner is online!

- Check homework

- Repetition 5.1

- Info 5.2

Workplanner

Handing in homework

Via Teams

Do this before the next lesson. So you hand in your homework no later than monday before 23.59 PM.

Where did the Industrial Revolution start?

1. France
2. England
3. The Netherlands
4. Germany

How and why did this happen in England?

They were great! 

Hmm not so great

How were the linving conditions for the people working in the factories?

How do we call the society after the Industrial Revolution?

How did the relationship between a employer and employee change because of the Industrial Revolution?

Why did children have to work in the factories?

1. Schools were too expensive
2. They wanted to earn some pocket money
3. They had to work to pay for food for the family
4. They thought is was fun

What decided the 'Kinderwetje van Van Houten'?

5.2 The social question

Not only child labour was part of the problem. Poverty was also a very big problem. Poverty was part of the 'social question'. 

During the Industrial revolution the middle class became richer, but the labourers' poverty became more visible. 

Labourers

Labourers were poor. Had no employee rights as we know them now: if they were sick or became disabled they had no income and were easily fired. 

Labourers formed unions (vakbonden) that would fight for better working conditions.

They would organize strikes, which made the middle class nervous. 

Social laws

1886 - Eel Riots in Amsterdam

After these riots a inquiry (investigation) was held about the working conditions in factories. Many people now started to realise how tough a labourer life was.

This led to the social laws: laws to protect the weak groups.

>Welfare (uitkering) in case of accident

> Shorter workdays, better houses, higher wages

Homework

Paragraph 5.2

Assignments 5-8  (and 1-4 if you hadn't done that yet!)

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Practice test of 5.2 (Find it on ItsLearning)