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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 10

Industrialization, Labor and Social Change

Learners evaluate competing explanations for why industrialization began in Britain, analyze how factories, railways and cities transformed work, families and environments, compare the responses of liberals, socialists, unions and reformers using short public-domain texts, and trace industrialization's spread to Germany, the United States and Meiji Japan and its global effects.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 130 minutes
  • Industrialization check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, estimate, highlight a text, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Evaluate competing explanations for why industrialization began in Britain, including the 'Great Divergence' debate.
  • Analyze how industrialization changed work, cities, families and the environment, using data.
  • Compare ideological and political responses to industrialization (liberalism, socialism, labor organizing and reform).
  • Compare industrialization beyond Britain and evaluate its global consequences.

Lessons

  1. Why Britain first? 5 steps3 practiceabout 32 min
  2. Factories, cities and families 5 steps3 practiceabout 33 min
  3. Responses: ideas, unions and reform 6 steps4 practiceabout 32 min
  4. Beyond Britain 5 steps4 practiceabout 33 min
  5. Industrialization check 9 questions at the end

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