1. The Industrial Revolution

2. The Spread of the Industrial Revolution
-The rest of Europe was slow to industrialize because the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars halted trade, interrupted communication, and caused inflation
-Belgium led the way in adopting Britain’s new methods of manufacturing goods
*rich deposits of iron and coal
*waterways for transportation
-William Cockerill smuggled secret plans for building spinning machinery to Belgium in 1799

3. Germany Industrializes
-Lacked countrywide industrialization
-rather pockets of industrialization sprung up
ex: coal-rich Ruhr Valley of west-central
Germany
-beginning around 1835 Germany began to copy the British model
-imported English equipment and engineers
-built railroads that linked growing manufacturing cities to one another
ex: Frankfurt with the Ruhr Valley
-by the late 1800s Germany had become an industrial and militaristic giant
-foreshadows future world wars

4. Expansion throughout Europe
-proceeded by region rather than by country
-Examples:
-Bohemia developed its spinning industry
-Spain’s Catalonia processed cotton
-Northern Italy specialized in silk
-France industrialized after 1850 when the central government constructed railroads
-Some nations did not industrialize
-Ex: Austria-Hungary

5. City Growth

12. Inventions: The Spinning Jenny

13. The Cotton Gin: by Eli Whitney

15. John Kay’s Flying Shuttle

16. Watt’s Steam Engine

19. Impact of the Steam Engine
The steam engine was the most important industrial invention
Aside from the ability to create tools and other useful items, the steam engine powered the railroads
The Rocket: 16 mi/hr
Created large national markets for shipping goods.
Reduced the cost of shipping
20% of industrial made products in the world came from England.

20. Population Boom
England experienced a population boom in cities (urbanization) due to the availability of jobs.
Historians today view the pop. boom as positive because it promoted industrial growth.
Critics:
Thomas Malthus: believed pop. Increase outgrew food. Society would need famine/war/disease to check the growth.
David Ricardo: believed too many workers would drive down wages. Called “iron law of wages”

21. Government Support
Many governments throughout Europe financially supported industrialization.
Offered tariff (tax) protection
Funded railroad production
Governments wanted their countries to be modern so that they could keep up with the rest of Europe.
European nations like Germany, followed Economic Nationalism
A policy dedicated to protecting industry in the nation. Taxed foreign made goods so that people would only buy nationally made good.

22. Factory Life and Child Labor

23. Factory System Factories were unsanitary and equipment was unsafe
People worked long hours (14+ hours a day/6 days week)
Workers received very poor wages (especially women & children)
Severe discipline by factory owners
Coal miners lifespan was generally 10 years shorter on average

24. Child Labor
Children as young as 6 were forced to work hours a day
Received very short breaks if any
Were beaten if they stopped working or got too tired.
Operated large heavy machinery-often injured or killed children

25. “Kids at Work”

31. The Industrial Revolution

32. Coal Miners