Adjustments to Industrial Life
—Family life changes
—Low birth rates/low death rates – kids more important – not source of income
—Better health for kids – only 10% are dying before 10 years old – yippee!
—Louis Pasteur discovers germs – better health/sanitation
—Consumer culture
begins
—More money to
buy products – living above subsistence
—Rise in corporations
—more stock
owned companies
—labor unions
created
—workers bargain
for better pay/conditions’
—Farmer life improves
—More
connected
—Developed
staple crops
—Cooperatives to market crops/purchase supplies – can be done cheaper if work together
