FEBRUARY 27, 2017 Get out stuff for notes Industrial Revolution Test Corrections until Friday HW: Vocab due March 16
The Industrial Revolution Rap http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eutUTVpdWDc&feature=youtu.be
Pre-Industrial Production Cottage Industries: Small farms Agricultural focus
Changes in Great Britain: Enclosure Acts Improved agriculture Population increase Encourage own research of the enclosures, what it meant both good and bad.
Why England? 1) $$$ from colonial empire 2) Political Stability=economic growth 3) Maritime Power-global dominance 4) Sympathetic Government to private investment and business 5) Factors of production: LAND LABOR CAPITAL
Industrialization First Industry: Textiles -Cheap -Experienced labor -Demand High
Increase efficiency and profitability-drives cost down for products Major Inventions Seed Drill-1701 Steam Engine-1712 Flying Shuttle – 1733 Spinning Jenny –1765 Steam Engine – 1763 Power Loom- 1785 Spinning Mule-1790 Cotton Gin-1792 Increase efficiency and profitability-drives cost down for products
Transportation Canals Steam locomotive -Transport goods/resources -REDUCE COSTS!!
The Process Factory System Mass production Assembly line EFFICIENCY PRODUCTIVITY Make more stuff=cost decrease=sell more stuff= more $$$
Social Structure Upper Class-large business owners Middle Class –professionals and managers Lower Class-teachers, office and shop workers Working Class- factory worker Better STANDARD OF LIVING ($$$) But QUALITY OF LIFE is bad
Urbanization “from this filthy sewer, pure gold flows….” Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1830s in reference to Manchester, England
Life for working class in the new cities.
What about the workers?
FEBRUARY 28, 2017 Finish Industrial Revolution Notes Pros & Cons of Industrial Revolution Test Corrections until Friday
Work conditions 14 hour days, 6 days a week Dark, unclean Dangerous Monotonous Children labor Severe discipline
Child Labor in the Mines Child “hurriers”
Change in Conditions Late 1800s Labor organizes: Unions form Work stoppage/STRIKE Eventual limits Age Hours Conditions
Innovations Energy Transportation Communication Medicine and Science electricity Transportation Combustion engine (automobile and airplane) Communication Telegraph, telephone, radio Medicine and Science Examples: radioactivity, pasteurization, the nucleus, anesthetic, antiseptic, archeology, anthropology, sociology
Benefits of Industrialization Jobs Wealth Technological progress Higher standard of living Expanded education Leisure Time (weekend/vacation) Social mobility Cultural Changes: sports, amusements, progress in medicine and science Stop lesson two!
PROS & CONS In your notes create a T chart On one side write PROS OF INDUSTRIAL REV On the other side write CONS OF INDUSTRIAL REV Review your notes and find examples for each Think in terms of economics, standard of living, working conditions, the environment, etc.