12.1 Notes: Living from the Land

Warm-Up Two positives and two negatives to being able to work from home as your full time job? Would you want to work from home for your full time job? Why?

Crash Web Create an Industrial Rev web with a central picture and webs of details connected. AMAP but at least 10! Crash Course: Crash Course:

 Pre- Industrial Revolution People lived like their ancestors. Farmers- hoped for good harvest & depended on the weather. Rich & poor families small- high infant mortality. Life expectancy s: London, England:1750- largest city in Europe; 700,000 people. 25% Europeans lived in towns. People lived in small country villages. Didn’t go beyond village. Travelers told of the outside world.

 Villages Rural- farmers. Wealthy landowners controlled land. Rented land to small farmers. Families’ owned/rented small strips of land. Permitted fair land distribution if disaster struck. Farmers worked cooperatively. Private/public lands not fenced off.

 The Village People Village commons- land all could use. Farmers gathered wood & raised livestock on the commons. Poorer farmers used public lands for crop-raising. Village economies limited- transport of goods difficult. No profit. Villages self-sufficient: grew food, built homes, made clothes & tools.

 Village Life  Rich rural land owners- country estates. Servants ran households. Renters of land- small, poorly lit cottages. Shared quarters with farm animals. Daily activities devoted to farming. Everyone in family worked. People worked in small industries or coal mines besides farming. Work schedules revolved around farm activities. People in industry helped farmers. Winter- farmers worked in mines or shops. Year—round income.

 Wool 1700s: demand for wool rises. Merchants hired workers to produce wool at home. System of labor called domestic system. Spread to leatherworking and lace making industries. Domestic system depended on many workers. Benefits of domestic system: Workers set own hours. Workers set own hours. Tend to duties at home. Tend to duties at home. Work/income even during hard times. Work/income even during hard times. Rural domestic practices of domestic system the basis of technology/skills of Industrial Revolution.

 Coal Coal fields under farmland. People who worked in mines helped with harvest. Money earned from farming/mining- bought things couldn’t make. New machinery & power sources upset domestic system & changed way of life.

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Photo Analysis: Sims and Differences??