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Industrial Revolution

Began in British textile and mining industries Causes Began in British textile and mining industries Improvements in agriculture = population growth More consumers = more need for production Creation of new machines End of the cottage industry

New Technology Textiles: Cotton Spinning using Richard Arkwright’s Water Frame, James Hargreaves’ Spinning Jenny, and Samuel Crompton’s Spinning Mule Steam Power: The improved steam engine invented by James Watt Used for pumping out mines Power machines Semi-automated factories Bessemer Process: Easier way to make iron Allowed tools to be made quickly and cheap

Social and Technological Impacts

Technological Impacts More efficient machines, increased production, cheaper priced goods for trade Better forms of transportation, increased trade and expansion Creation of huge manufacturing buildings

Social Impacts Urbanization – more people move to the cities (close to the factories); start to see a boom in population in the cities Child Labor – children are forced to work unbearable jobs and long hours Unions – factory workers were underpaid and forced to live and work in terrible conditions Eventually form unions and demand higher wages, shorter hours and put an end to child labor

“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations “The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.” “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” “Society does not consist of individuals, but expressed the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.” “Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.” “The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.”