Industrialization and Its Discontents, 1750-1900: Social Studies Unit 4, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Industrialization and Its Discontents, 1750-1900 is Unit 4 of Patterns of Power: A World History Survey, c. 1200-Present (Part 1) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 83 pages.

• Capital and wage labor as a structural economic relationship
• Social class as an analytic category based on relationship to capital and labor
• Variation in factory labor conditions across time and place
• Stages of industrialization inferred from underlying economic mechanisms
• Laissez-faire liberalism and socialism as competing causal/mechanistic arguments about industrial conditions
• Reuse and repurposing of natural-rights vocabulary from political revolution to economic/labor reform
• Multi-causal explanation for uneven timing of industrialization (geography, capital, markets)
• Competing responses to industrialization (reform, revolution, unregulated growth) evaluated against primary-source evidence
• Core vocabulary of industrial economic structure

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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