SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 1871-1914 Look at the concept Second Industrial Revolution of the Wikipedia for doing the exercises.

Definition It is the transformation involving significant developments within the chemical, electrical, petroleum, and steel industries. By 1870 the global market was saturated with manufactured goods and the problem led up to the long depression called New Imperialism.

Exercise First industrial revolution. Sectors Second industrial revolution. Sectors.

INVENTIONS Bessemer and Siemens steel making processes Printing press, essential for the communication of technical ideas

GEOGRAPHY GERMANY BRITAIN Capital+effort+time Technological advances Inversion in research Cartels: made a more efficient use of fluid capital BRITAIN Former industrialization Use of expensive and outdated technology No inversions in research Capital less fluid

QUESTIONS When did Germany start its industrialization process seriously? Why could not they do it earlier? Which country had been the most developed during first industrial revolution? Which is the better prepared country for industrialization in the second industrial revolution?

COMPARATION First industrial revolution Workers: from town to cities Unemployment: Not important Wages: Low Kind of workers: Blue collar Unions: First groups as luddities

COMPARATION Second industrial revolution: Workers: Unemployment: Wages: Kind of workers: Unions:

APPLICATION OF INVENTIONS New energy: electricity New engines: steam and internal-combustion New transport: automobile New way of production: chain New power sources: petroleum and nuclear reactors.

Exercise Fill in the gaps: The demand of the for more durable rail led to the development of cheaply mass produce . It is considered the first or a series of areas for , that began around .This Second Industrial Revolution include several sectors: industries, refining, industries and industries. The industrial leadership passed from Britain to and .

The introduction of power enabled the rapid industrialization of -starved northern Italy. The increasing availability of economic products also reduced the relation of coal to the potential for industrialization. The first giant industrial appeared by the 1890s, when companies as U.S. Steel, General Electric, Bayer AG joined the on the world’s .

ANSWER Why the Industrial Revolution took place in Europe and no in China? (Look for evidence in your worksheet).

CAPITALIST How did Enlightenment provided the framework for the industrial development? What do you think that is implied in the Adam Smith’s idea about The Wealth of Nations?

MARXIST Can you identify the terms capitalism, socialism and communism with the three stages of Marxist dialectical? Which were the two social groups mentioned by Marx and what did each one own? Which were the leading causes for poverty conditions in cities? What should develop proletariat?

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TERMINOLOGY Make you sure you can define the following concepts: Industrial Revolution: Factory system: Interchangeable parts: Steamboat: Telegraph: Luddities: Trade unions: