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CONSEQUENCES of the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION for the WORKING CLASS ECONOMIC PROBLEMS FOR WORKING CLASS GENERAL REMARKS RE WORKING CLASS who were working class? just like in prior centuries working classes made up majority of people analogous to peasant class Europe England use working class where America uses lower class unskilled, semiskilled highly skilled Boom Bust cycles Boom bust times intensified under Ind Rev cf w/our economic cycles today of depression inflation general depressions like that of late 1840s frequent severe why? factories at first made little attempt to provide steady level of employment when a batch of orders came in machines workers labored to capacity until orders filled then factory simple shut down to await next order food riots common during these troubled times no work no food government officials often threatened by hungry people not only factories caused economic problems for more women children worked in small workshops than factories sweatshops as they came to be called married women worked at home with their children again orders for piecework fluctuated too wages terribly low for piece work like number of matchboxes glued shirts sewn if no work then women prostitutes domestic service employed great numbers both men women Economic problems and their effect on working class families since womens wages 1/2 to 2/3 of a mans for same work single women could only make enough money to pay rent not enough for food or clothing thus working class women needed to marry so women worked all day on their outside job then took care of children, household duties men did not help with chores children if they did they were ridiculed women who failed to manage or spent too much could be expected to be hit violence to wives common violence increased when economic times worsened no one intervened unl