The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)Chapter 17:
Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial AgeLearning Objectives
When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Identify and discuss the key causes of the industrial revolution.
- Identify Britain’s unique set of advantages that encouraged industrialization there first.
- Outline and explain the features of new markets, machines, and power.
- Discuss the spread of industrialization to the European continent.
- Assess the benefits and burdens of industrialization and its effects on the middle and working classes.
- Identify important features of life in the growing cities.
- Outline the rise of public health and medicine in the industrial age.
- Explain the development of industrial family ideals and realities.
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