THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TAKES FLIGHT

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TAKES FLIGHTChanges in Society and Culture After the Industrial Revolution(1800-1900)MANCHESTERTHE GOODCheaper, better housing

Higher wages, shorter hours

Healthier diets

Growing, prosperous middle class

Industry specialized, organized by growing cities

MANCHESTERTHE BADMiserable living/working conditions create need for legislation

Rampant pollution, esp. Irwell River

Population increases at unmanageable levels

Overuse of resources

MANCHESTERTHE QUESTIONSWhat if we run out of resources? Where do we go?

How do we clean up this mess?

Is a growing middle class going to demand rights?

Manchester United or Manchester City?

INDUSTRIALIZATION SPREADSTHE GOODU.S., Germany, others start on road to major power

Corporations form and stocks become widespread

Women allowed to work, hold responsibility

Growing, prosperous middle class worldwide

INDUSTRIALIZATION SPREADSTHE BADEconomic gap between West and rest grows immensely

Environmental concerns spread throughout world

Imperialism becomes more widespread, hits Africa

Big middle class?

An Age of ReformsTHE GOOD New economic systemsCapitalismUtilitarianismSocialism/Communism

Unions formCollective bargainingStrikes

Push for abolition, suffrage

More focus on INDIVIDUALS

An Age of ReformsTHE BADMarx believes in revolution for communism

New economic systems plant seeds for 20th Century problems

Governments resist unions, violence erupts

Abolition movement leads to tension, civil war

Democratic Reform and ActivismTHE GOOD Birth of interest groupsAnti-Corn Law League

Reform Act of 1832 = middle class men vote

By 1918 large majority of British can vote

Womens Political and Social Union (1903) organizes women, women push for rightsEmmeline Pankhurst

Democratic Reform and ActivismTHE BAD People resort to violenceChartistsSuffragettesHunger strikeSelf-sacrifice

Frightening if youre targetedFrightening if you ARENT targeted!

Takes 100 years!

And Now, For Something Completely DifferentCheck out the highly educational DVD clip and listen to the lyrics to learn about suffrage!ImpressionismVisible brushstrokes

Slightly blurred boundaries

Light colors

Group of artists who paint the same way make up Impressionists

Dont use black!

Water Lily Pond (1899)

Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876)

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte (1884-1886)

The Stone-Breakers (1849-1850)Paul CezannePOST-IMPRESSIONISM

Likes impressionist colors

Wants more geometric forms back

Very interested in geometry in paintings

Still Life with a Curtain (1895)NEW TRENDSLITERATURE: Romantic (Hugo) vs. Realist (Dickens)

MUSIC: Baroque (Bach) vs. Classical (Beethoven)

SCIENCE: Pasteur vs. Bacteria, Doctors vs. Dirty Surgery, Darwin vs. World