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Industrial Revolution Circa. 1700 – 1850
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Stages & Developments Population Explosion Urbanisation Agricultural Innovation Labour Supply & Raw Materials Industrialisation & Mass Production Transportation Innovation Social Factors: Living & Working Conditions
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Population Explosion Causation: Population Explosion – Industrialisation & Market Expansion Food Shortage Urbanisation Mass Production Surplus Labour Supply Agricultural Innovation Available Raw Materials Transportation Innovation Market Expansion
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Population Explosion 1700 - 1850
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Urbanisation 1700 - 1850
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Urbanisation & Population Shift
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Agricultural Innovation
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Agricultural Revolution & Innovation: Subsistence – Profit Old Medieval Field System: Fallow Fields & Strip- Farming
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4-Field System & Selective Breeding
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Factory System: Mass Production
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Factory System: Evolution of Domestic System (Profit)
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Living & Working Conditions
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The New Working Class Originally most of the new ‘working-class’ came from agricultural backgrounds (serfdom, cottiers & agricultural labourers) This new class of working people lived in over-crowded tenement buildings in urban centres Women & children all worked in the new Industrial Revolution: maximising profit for owners Children were easily disciplined & could perform functions that adults could not Children had no protection under law Close relationship between education & work of children: uniforms, time-keeping, discipline, authority etc.
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Transportation Innovation
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Innovation & Industrialisation Textiles Originated in the Domestic System, new innovations led to the invention of Richard Arkwright’s ‘Spinning Frame’. Later innovations included James Hargreaves’ ‘Spinning Jenny’ & Samuel Crompton’s ‘Spinning Mule’. These inventions led to a massive increase in the production of textiles based on Mass Production in the Factory System Steam PowerIron Production
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