Name: __________________ Date: _______

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
HAS INDUSTRIALIZATION HELPED OR
HURT SOCIETY?
DO NOW: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE

PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY?

Review:
1) What was one reason the Industrial Revolution
began in England?

2) What was one effect of the Industrial Revolution?

ADVANCED CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY

How apple electronics changed the
world
Macintosh: Defining the computer for the
rest of us
Steve Jobs created the Mac, heralding a new, better way to
use computers. Ironically, the horribly exp ensive Mac
became the emblem of computing for the masses, a human
device for real people who had seen computers as
unfathomable tools used only by engineers and scientists.

Microsoft took the core principles of the Mac's graphical,

direct-manipulation interface, itself inspired by work at Xerox
PARC, and brought them to Windows, delivering the promise
of the Mac to the masses for real. Today, the approach
pioneered by the Mac is simply how computers work.

iPod: The music world, reinvented

After Steve Jobs' 12-year journey in the wilderness of Next
and Pixar, he returned to a near-dead Apple -- and came up
with the iPod. MP3 players already existed, but none really
mattered. Portable CD players and the industry's portability
granddaddy, the Sony Walkman, still ruled.

In 2001, the iPod changed all that, thanks to a better user

experience. It also changed the music industry: Songs now
mattered, not albums, and with the iTunes Store, Apple
shifted the distribution of music from physical stores to
downloads. The music business -- and music listening -- in

2014 bears little resemblance to the experience in 2001.

The iPod also changed Apple, converting the computer

company into a consumer technology company, which is the
source of its strength today.

iPhone: The end of the cell phone, the

beginning of mobile computing
When the iPhone debuted in 2007, InfoWorld's Tom
Yager derided it as a $1,975 iPod, due to its required data
plan. A year later, Apple debuted the App Store, and the
iPhone was no longer an iPod that could make calls.

Apple smartly created several rich apps -- iMovie,

GarageBand, Pages, Keynote, Numbers -- that to this day are
unrivaled as mobile apps and show that a smartphone isn't a
cellphone that supports email, as the once-dominant
BlackBerry had been, but a computer in its own right. Apple
had this vision back in 1993 with its Newton MessagePad,
which clearly presages the iPhone of 2007.

Today, Android rules much of the smartphone world; like

Windows used the Mac as inspiration, Android used the
iPhone.

Touch: The gestures we all use came from

Apple
It doesn't matter what devices or operating systems you run,
when it comes to touch gestures, they all work very much the
same way -- at core, Apple's way. Apple has vigorously
protected some gestures through patents, but the basic
gestures it introduced on the iPhone are practically universal.
They've become like mouse movements, used by everyone.

That universality has quickly let the gesture approach to

computing take off, as both developers and users can focus
less on learning the UI and more on, well, using it. Most of
Apple's impact has been on mobile devices, but its adaption
of touch to computers via touch-enabled mice and trackpads
probably means when touch PCs finally get popular, they'll
use Apple's gestures, too.

ADVANCED CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY

How apple electronics changed the world
Directions: After reviewing the slides of how Apple changed the world, fill in the graphic
organizer below and answer the question.

How has Apple helped society?

1) What do you think was the most significant achievement of Apple? Why?

ADVANCED CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY

How apple products are made

ADVANCED CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY

How apple products are made

Photographs:
(top left, top right) = the cramped and crowded working conditions on the floor of the foxconn plant in
china where all apple products are made.
(middle left, bottom right) = suicide nets are installed at foxconn. Workers are so dismayed at
their working and living conditions that they were leaping out of windows to their death. In order to keep
their labor source intact, suicide nets were installed to catch suicidal workers and return them to their
posts.
(bottom left) = the prison-like living quarters of the foxconn employees, each room housing between 2030 people, all of whom have no more than a bunk cot and a small locker to themselves.

Foxconn Technology Group, Apple's main global contract manufacturer run by

Taiwanese tycoon Terry Gou and employing 1.2 million workers in China, has come
under fire in recent years for running massive "sweatshops" to mass produce high-end
iPads and iPhones.
Last month, Gou defended his firm's industrial workshops that have helped outmuscle
rivals through vast economies of scale and cost savings that have made it the world's
largest contract manufacturer.

"What's wrong with sweatshops?" Gou told Chinese workers

visiting Taiwan in late April. "We toil hard with blood and sweat, so long as we don't
break any laws. I believe in reaping what you sow," he added in videoclip posted on
YouTube.
Following a spate of critical reports detailing unsafe factory practices at Foxconn plants
that have triggered worker deaths and suicides, Apple this year allowed the U.S.-based
Fair Labor Association (FLA) to conduct a high-profile and extensive probe of
Foxconn's China factories.
The report, released in March and based on 35,000 worker interviews, unearthed labor
violations including extreme work hours and unpaid overtime. As a result, Apple and
Foxconn pledged major improvements including cutting workloads, improving safety
protocols and upgrading workers' housing and quality of life.

How apple products are made

Directions: After reviewing the slides of how Apple products are made, fill in the graphic
organizer below and answer the question.

How has Apple hurt society?

2) Place a mark on the line spectrum below. The far right represents the opinion Apple
has helped society. The far left represents Apple has hurt society. Place your
mark according to where your opinion lies regarding this issue.

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Apple hurt society

Apple helped society.

Affordable CONSUMER goods

ALWAYS LOW PRICES

Eight in ten Americans shop at Wal-Mart. Always Low Prices is not the only reason why
most Americans prefer doing big-stop shopping in Wal-Mart. This gigantic store meets most of
customers wants by providing numerous store locations, 24-hour openings, variety of goods,
and low prices. Each year, Wal-Marts Foundation gives millions to charities, charter schools,
community organizations, military families, and disaster victims.

Wal-Mart provides something that people want--low prices. A range of

studies have found prices at Wal-Mart are anywhere from 8 to 39 percent
less than its major competitors.
Global Insight was hired by Wal-Mart to quantify the national benefits of
Wal-Marts lower prices, and they found out that total consumer savings
by 2014 were $263 billion, which is the equivalent of $895 per person or
$2329 per household.

For some people, seeing items in Wal-Mart cheaper than the same items in other stores might
lead them to doubt the quality of Wal-Mart products. But there is nothing suspicious about it.
The reason for cutting prices in Wal-Mart is that the stores can earn more at cheaper retail prices
by selling an increased volume of merchandise, rather than what they would have earned by
selling less items at the higher price. So, by selling items for relatively low prices, Wal-Mart
increases the quantity of sold product, which helps to refresh the store shelves frequently and
refill them with new and better items.

Affordable CONSUMER goods

ALWAYS LOW PRICES

Directions: After reviewing the slides of the benefits of shopping at Wal-Mart, fill in the
graphic organizer below and answer the question.

How has wal-mart helped society?

1) What do you think is the best reason to shop at/support Wal-Mart?

Affordable CONSUMER goods

THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE

 Wal-Mart pays it full-time workers an average of $17,000 per year.

These wages are too low for over 50% of employees to afford Wal-Mart's
health insurance, so management counsels workers to apply for
government programs such as Medicaid.
Wal-Mart workers are atop the Medicaid rolls in at least 16 states, costing
taxpayers billions every year.
Wal-Marts production facilities in Bangladesh and China pay workers as
little as 18 cents an hour.
Currently, Wal-Mart is the subject of the largest class action discrimination
lawsuit in history, including over 1.5 million current and former female
employees who were paid and promoted at significantly lower rates than
their male co-workers.
The International Labor Rights Fund filed a class-action lawsuit against
Wal-Mart for violating workers rights in foreign countries, alleging that WalMart denied minimum wage, required overtime, and punished union
activity. In some cases, workers alleged they were beaten by supervisors.
The suit alleged that one Bangladesh worker worked seven days a week
from 7:45 a.m to 10:00 p.m, without a single day off, for six months straight.
In another instance, Wal-Mart was accused of failing to provide adequate
safety equipment (gloves) for its fabric cutters and seamstresses overseas.
According to one report, in Wal-Marts cost-benefit analysis, it was cheaper
to wash workers blood from clothing before shipping the clothing
overseas for sale than it was to provide gloves.
The combined owners of Wal-Mart (6 members of the Walton family) are
worth as much as the bottom 30% of all Americans combined.

Photographs: (top left, top right, middle right): workers protest Wal-Marts treatment of
women and low wages.
(middle left): grieving family and friends mourn the 112 workers (mostly women) that were
killed in a fire in one of Wal-Marts Bangladesh clothing factories.
(middle right, bottom left): the 2013 collapse of the Savar clothing factory in Bangladesh,
another of Wal-Marts garment factories. Cracks in the buildings structure were
discovered the day before the collapse, but workers were told they would be withheld one
months pay if they did not return to work the next day. 1,127 workers were killed.

The HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE

Directions: After reviewing the slides of the disadvantages of shopping at/supporting

Wal-Mart, fill in the graphic organizer below and answer the question.

How has wal-mart hurt society?

2) Place a mark on the line spectrum below. The far right represents the opinion Apple
has helped society. The far left represents Apple has hurt society. Place your
mark according to where your opinion lies regarding this issue.

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Wal-Mart hurt society

Wal-Mart helped society

1) Imagine your favorite piece of technology cost $100. You then find out that it is made using
abusive labor practices. The employees are underpaid, work in hazardous conditions, and are often
injured and possibly killed on the job. How much would you be willing to pay for that product in
order to ensure those labor practices ended? Alternately, would you be ok with the labor practices
abuses getting even worse, if it lowered the price of your favorite product?
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2) Based on everything you have learned this week, craft a claim regarding whether you believe the
Industrial Revolution has helped society or if you believe the Industrial Revolution hurt
society. Next, back that claim up with evidence and analysis. Evidence must be taken from any of
the documents (texts, pictures, graphs) that we have covered this week in class. Analysis should be
your own.

Claim:

Evidence:
Analysis:

3) On this final line spectrum, place a mark that shows to what extent you believe the Inudustrial
Revolution has helped society, hurt society, or affected it somewhere in between. Be prepared to
defend your opinion with evidence.

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The Industrial Revolution
hurt society

The Industrial Revolution

helped society