Lesson at a Glance
Chapter 19, Lesson 1: Entering the Modern Age (pp. 480-484)

The Big Idea
Framework Concept: Change and Technology Growth industry replaced skilled workers with unskilled workers for low wages and long hours and no satisfaction of seeing a finished product.

• Read the introduction on page 480 and have students preview the illustrations and read the captions. Ask them to discuss how they think the rapid growth of industry will affect the workers.
• Hold up a shirt and tell students that it was made by skilled workers for about twenty dollars. Then hold up another shirt, similar, but different and tell students this shirt was made by poorly-paid workers. Ask them which shirt they would buy and why. Talk about how people who make shirts might make shirts cheaper by cutting labor costs. Then discuss how cheaper labor affects the workers.