Irene Wang Mr. Karch World History R Chapter 24 Reformers stressed the effects of an industrial environment on workers’ morale. One of the disadvantages was the urban overcrowding. Bosses were in moral danger too. Social changes included urbanization, increasing population density, and formal division of work and leisure time. Work moved from country to city, outdoors to indoors, homes and small workshops to factories and mines. Shift fro proprietorship to large-scale enterprises where power is concentrated in small number of factory, mine owners. Plentiful workers relatively powerless to negotiate unless organized. Words of genuine belief in nobility work were expressed genuinely. The language also reveals the power hunger of industrialists who based their claims to wealth and influence on merit rather than wealth. The moral tone of bosses’ paternalism leaps from the page. More than just money inspired industrialization at its best. Proximity of work offset by increase in air and water pollution; grimy surroundings, lack of public sanitation in high-density cities. Increased power of municipal nation governments to regulate, development of idea of public health to stem disease, child mortality rates, epidemics. Slavery repelled believers in three doctrines of growing appeal in the world. According to egalitarians, all people were equal, and it was nonsense for anyone to be born into slavery. In Africa, slaves were both a vital labor force and a major export product. Industrialization led westerners to reevaluate womanhood and childhood. Women and children were perceived as ideal for certain industrial tasks but were also treated as marginally efficient workers. Mechanization took them out of the labor market. Society rationalized the process by representing it as a form of liberation and even of elevating the status of women and children....