The Making of Industrial Society Chapter 29 The Making of Industrial Society

Overview: The Industrial Revolution Energy: coal and steam replace wind, water, human and animal labor Organization: factories over cottage industries Rural agriculture declines, urban manufacturing increases Transportation: trains, automobiles replace animals, watercraft

Overview: Creation of New Classes The industrial middle class: clerks and managers Urban proletariat: laborers increasingly unskilled Shift in political power: from aristocratic landholders to new industrial capitalists Industrialization sparks ideas for new political systems, especially socialist/Marxist ones

Overview: Unexpected Costs of the Industrial Revolution Genesis of an environmental catastrophe Intellectual underpinnings: faith in human domination over natural resources Unforeseen toxins and occupational hazards Social ills Landless proletariat leads to creation of slums Migrating work forces lead lives of instability

Genesis of the Industrial Revolution Great Britain in the 1780s: beginnings of industrialization Followed agricultural revolution Food surplus Disposable income Population increase Market Labor supply

British Advantages Natural resources Ease of transportation Colonies Plentiful coal and iron ore deposits Ease of transportation Small, compact country Goods easily transported via river and canal system Colonies Raw goods imported from colonies Colonies provide market for manufactured goods, especially machine-made textiles

Cotton-Producing Technology Flying shuttle (1733) invented by machinist John Kay Sped up weaving output Stimulated demand for thread The “mule” (1779) invented by Samuel Crompton Could produce 100 times more thread than a manual wheel

Cotton-Producing Technology Power loom (1785) invented by Edmund Cartwright Supplanted hand weavers in cotton industry by 1820s

Steam Power Steam Engine James Watt (1736-1819): Instrument-maker who experimented with steam power while working at the University of Glasgow. Earlier Newcomen engine, invented in 1712, was used to power pumps for removing water from mines. Watt’s engine, invented in 1765, was far more efficient. Coal-fired engine that pushed a piston, which in turn turned a wheel; the rotary design had multiple applications “Horsepower” term to describe output of Watt’s engines; did the work of many horses Especially prominent in textile industry by 1800

Iron and Steel By 1709, British smelters begin to use coke Coke is carbonized coal, baked in an oven to burn away impurities, leaving only pure coal called “coke” Iron production skyrockets Bessemer converter is invented (1856) by Henry Bessemer Refined blast furnace makes production of steel faster and cheaper; it removes impurities with a blast of air

Transportation Railroads George Stephenson (1781-1848) creates the first steam-powered locomotive in 1815. Initially used to haul coal from mines. Stephenson’s Rocket (1829) achieves 28 mph in a competition for the new Liverpool & Manchester Railway.

Transportation Steamboats: First commercially successful steamboat launched by Robert Fulton in 1807, plying a route between NYC and Albany. Dense transportation networks developed 13,000 miles of railroads laid between 1830 and 1870 Rapid and inexpensive transportation encouraged industrialization in areas previously considered too distant from major markets.

The Factory System Early modern Europe adopts “putting-out” system Individuals work at home, employers avoid wage restrictions of medieval guilds Rising prices cause factories to replace both guilds and putting-out system Machines too large, expensive for home use Large buildings could house specialized laborers Urbanization guarantees supply of cheap unskilled labor

Working Conditions Dramatic shift from rural work rhythms Six days a week, fourteen hours a day Immediate supervision, punishments “Luddite” protest against machines break out from 1811 to 1816 Name from legend about boy named Ludlam who broke a knitting frame Leader called “King Lud” Were handloom weavers and artisans who had been replaced by machines Masked Luddites destroy machinery, enjoyed popular support Fourteen Luddites hung in 1813, movement peters out “Sabotage”: Dutch wooden shoe called a “sabot” wedged into gears. Luddites smashing a power loom in 1812

Spread of Industrialization Western Europe Spread to Germany, Belgium, France by mid-1800s French revolution and Napoleonic wars set stage for industrialization Abolishes internal trade barriers Dismantles guilds After 1871, Bismarck pushes for state sponsorship of rapid industrialization in Germany

Industrial Europe ca. 1850

Industrialization in North America First New England water-powered textile mill established in 1793 in Rhode Island by Samuel Slater Industry develops on a wider scale in New England in the 1820s with cotton mills By the 1870s, heavy iron and steel industries emerges in Pennsylvania and Alabama. By 1900, the U.S. an economic powerhouse,with industrialization spilling over into Canada. Massive railroad construction stimulates industry: steel for rails and bridges, telegraph lines for communication, etc.

Mass Production Eli Whitney (U.S., 1765-1825) invents cotton gin (1793), also technique of using machine tools to make interchangeable parts for firearms Mass production becomes a hallmark of industrial societies Henry Ford, 1913, develops assembly line approach Complete automobile chassis every 93 minutes Previously: 728 minutes Cotton gin

Big Business No Small Entrepreneurs: Large factories require a huge amount of start-up capital Corporations formed to share risk and maximize profits Britain and France laid the legal foundations for modern corporation in 1850-1860s; the British Limited Liability Act of 1855 was particularly important

Monopolies, Trusts, and Cartels Large corporations form associations to drive out competition, keep prices high Cartel: different companies or countries that come together to control the price of one commodity Trust: Member organizations controlled by a board of trustees that controls prices Monopoly: One individual or company that controls on commodity or service Vertical Integration: John D. Rockefeller controls almost all oil drilling, processing, refining, marketing in U.S. Horizontal Integration: German firm IG Farben controls 90 percent of world chemical production through merging with and buying other companies that do the same thing Governments often slow to break up or regulate monopolies

Industrial Demographics Technological Innovation “American System”: standardized parts for everything from revolvers to sewing machines Cheaper Food: Improved agricultural tools and better transportation lowers prices Cheap Manufactured Goods Textiles: Cheap and washable cotton clothes affordable for all but the desperately poor. Housewares: Furniture, porcelain, cabinets, and decorative objects far cheaper than in the past.

Population Growth (millions)

The Demographic Transition Industrialization results in marked decline of both fertility and mortality Better diets Improved disease control English scientists Edmund Jenner (1749-1823) develops the smallpox vaccine (1797); cowpox not deadly, but provides immunity to smallpox Declining fertility Less need to have bigger families in industrial societies: less workers needed and more children survive

Contraception Ancient and medieval methods: depositories or potions to induce miscarriage pose health risks Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) predicts overpopulation crisis, advocates “moral restraint” Condom first efficient means of contraception without negative side effects Made from animal intestines in seventeenth century, latex in nineteenth century

The Urban Environment Urbanization proceeds dramatically 1800: only 20 percent of Britons live in towns with population over 10,000 1900: 75 percent of Britons live in such places Intensified industrial pollution: fossil fuels like coal befoul air and water with particulates, makes breathing difficult City centers become overcrowded, unsanitary: outbreaks of cholera, typhus, tuberculosis, and dysentery.

Transcontinental Migrations Nineteenth to early twentieth century, rapid population growth drives Europeans to Americas 50 million cross Atlantic Britons to avoid urban slums, Irish to avoid potato famines of 1840s, Jews to escape pogroms under the tsarist regime United States is favored destination, but some go elsewhere: Argentina, Canada, Australia, etc.

New Social Classes Economic factors result in decline of slavery Capitalist wealth brings new status to non-aristocratic families New urban classes of professionals Blue-collar factory workers Urban environment also creates new types of diversions Sporting events: European soccer and American baseball Leisure activities: bars and pubs, gambling, cockfighting and dogfighting

Women at Home and Work Agricultural and cottage industry work involved women: natural transition But development of men as prime breadwinners, women in private sphere, working cheap labor Double burden: women expected to maintain home as well as work in industry Working class women expected to work until marriage Domestic service Related to child labor: lack of daycare facilities

Child Labor Easily exploited, abused, and controlled 1840s British Parliament began to pass child labor laws Moral concerns remove children from labor pool Need for educated workforce: education of children from 5 to 10 years old becomes mandatory in England in 1881,

The Socialist Challenge Charles Fourier Socialism first used in context of utopian socialists Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and Robert Owen (1771-1858) Opposed competition of market system Attempted to create small model communities that would serve as inspiration for larger social units Fourier’s “phalanx” was a unit of about 1,600 people working harmoniously and for mutual benefit in a structure resembling the “grand hotels” of the era. Owen was a Welsh reformer who founded utopian communities in Scotland and the United States.

Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Two major classes in Marx’s analysis: Capitalists, who control means of production Proletariat, wageworkers who sell labor Highlighted the exploitative nature of capitalist system: labor produces more value than the paid wage for it. Religion: “opiate of the masses” Argued that capitalist would be overthrown in favor of a “dictatorship of the proletariat” in a historical process that mirrored rise of the bourgeois class over the feudal lords

Social Reform and Trade Unions Socialism had major impact on nineteenth-century reformers Addressed issues of medical insurance, unemployment compensation, retirement benefits Trade unions form for collective bargaining Strikes to address workers’ concerns Trade unions have major political influence in conservative imperial Germany

Global Effects Global division of labor Uneven economic development Rural societies that produce raw materials Urban societies that produce manufactured goods Uneven economic development Export dependency in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, south and southeast Asia Low wages and small domestic markets for manufactured goods Economies reliant on one or two export commodities