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Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
The arrival of these workers changed the face of the Blackstone Valley in many Inconjunction with the industrial revolution was the need for a transportation
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Extractions: The success of the Slater Mill inspired other entrepreneurs to build their own mills, first throughout the Blackstone Valley and then eventually all over New England. To take advantage of water power sources, new mill villages were built where once only field and forest stood. In conjunction with the Industrial Revolution was the need for a transportation revolution to cheaply and efficiently move heavy cargo between the mills on the river and the port of Providence. The river itself was impassible to large boats, and horse drawn wagons too slow and expensive.
BBC - Wales The Story Of Welsh - Industrial Revolution
The debate about whether the industrial revolution was a good or a bad thing forthe By the early 20th century, about one out of every four Welsh workers was a
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Extractions: 19th century The industrial revolution saw massive migration into Wales, diluting the Welsh language majority through the 19th and early 20th centuries. The debate about whether the Industrial Revolution was a good or a bad thing for the Welsh language will probably last as long as Welsh itself. Modern industry started in the 18th century, and its growth accelerated throughout the 19th as production switched from metal to coal mining. By the early 20th century, about one out of every four Welsh workers was a coal miner. Initially, the majority of the workers were Welsh. They migrated to the Valleys from west, mid and north Wales and the everyday language among the workers at the furnaces and coal mines would have been Welsh. There were English speaking migrants, but relatively few. As many of their fellow workers were monoglot Welsh, they tended to learn the language. As the 19th century progressed, the rate of immigration from outside Wales increased. Most of the new arrivals came from England; if they did learn the native language, it was for practical reasons or out of good will and a desire to integrate. There was certainly no formal requirement, a state of affairs which can be traced back to the infamous
BBC - History - Scottish History
formed the basic chemistry which sparked the industrial revolution. to form the backboneof a commercial revolution. The most common workers were often women
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CheatHouse.com - Industrial Revolution Essay In 1st Person Point Of View. Speaki
revolution During the industrial revolution European nations during the industrialrevolution were advanced and distributed more Most workers were treated very
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Extractions: Industrial Revolution Essay I have recently been elected to the House of Commons. I will be serving on the Committee for social well being. The Industrial Revolution has flourished in our great country. As a result, we have become the greatest and most wealthy industrial nation in the world. U Note! The sentences in this essay are shuffled, making this essay unusable
Industrial Revolution - Glossary
practices that partly preceded and partly overlapped the industrial revolution. BlanketeersName given to Manchester district workers who attempted to march on
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Extractions: THE LANGUAGE OF REVOLUTION WHAT was a billy? What did a devil do? The Industrial revolution spawned its own language and, if you are mystified, this page can help. Just click on the red letters (right) to select the section you want to look at. HOME Top Top Card Stiff wire brush used to disentangle and straighten cotton fibres prior to spinning. Carding engine Mechanised version of the card, with the raw cotton being passed over a spiked drum and processed into a sliver. Chartism Radical movement of the 1830s and 40s aimed at persuading Parliament to adopt a six-point charter which would have brought about major parliamentary reform.
Industrial Revolution - Major Events
ever mindful of what had happened to their own kind in France during the worst excessesof the French revolution, were determined workers, too, were frightened
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Extractions: SECRET midnight meetings on the moors. Battles in the streets and riots and mass rallies in the cities. There was never a dull moment in 19th-century Britain. A frightened Government, ever mindful of what had happened to their own kind in France during the worst excesses of the French Revolution, were determined to clamp down hard on the first signs of trouble. Spies reported on any hint of disaffection - and they weren't averse to inventing scare stories to justify their existence. Workers, too, were frightened. They feared for their jobs as mechanisation took a grip on the cotton industry, and despite laws outlawing trade unionism, they were becoming increasingly organised and militant, demanding not only better working conditions but parliamentary representation, too. It was a recipe for confrontation, and confrontation there was in plenty during the first half of the century.
Life In Britain During The Industrial Revolution
written during the industrial revolution in Britain. Find the heading with the nameof your assigned person (factory owners, factory workers, mine wokers, women
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Extractions: During the 1700's and early 1800's, great changes took place in the lives and work of people in several parts of the world. These changes resulted from the development of industrialization. The following sites will give examples of primary documents written during the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Find the heading with the name of your assigned person (factory owners, factory workers, mine wokers, women, children) and click on the link to the documents for you to examine.
Child-labor-bibliography
Urban workers in the Early industrial revolution (1983). Stearns, Peter N., andWalkowitz, Daniel J., ed. workers in the industrial revolution (1974).
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Extractions: Benson, Ian, and John Lloyd. New Technology and Industrial Change: The Impact of the Scientific-Technical Revolution on Labour and Industry Berg, Maxine. "What Difference Did Women's Work Make to the Industrial Revolution?" History Workshop 1993 (35/spr) 22-44. Berlanstein, Lenard R., ed. The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth-Century Europe London Cohen, Marjorie, "Changing Perceptions of the Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Female Labor." International Journal of Women's Studies Fleischman, Richard K. Conditions of Life Among the Cotton Workers of Southeastern Lancashire During the Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850 Glen, Robert. Urban Workers in the Early Industrial Revolution Heesom, A., `The Coal Mines Act of 1842, Social Reform, and Social Control'
Chapter 25 Outline - The Industrial Revolution
26. What hardships did factory workers face during the industrial revolution?27. How did city life change during the industrial revolution? 28.
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Extractions: I. The Industrial Revolution A. Great Britain's advantages - made rapid growth 1. labor supply 2. natural resources 3. investment capital 4. entrepreneurs - people who organize and manage businesses 5. transportation 6. markets 7. governmental support B. The Agricultural Revolution 1. new farming methods a. 1701 Jethro Tull - mechanical drill for planting b. 1700s Charles Townshed - fertilizer 2. enclosure movement a. farmers were made to put up fences b. parliament - Enclosure Act (1760) C. Revolution in the Textile Industry 1. new inventions a. domestic system - workers did work in their own home b. John Kay (1733) - invented flying shutle - weave cloth c. James Hargreaves (1760s) - spinning jenny d. Richard Arkwright (1769) - water frame e. Edmund Cartwright (1785) - loom ran by water f. Eli Whitney (1793) - cotton gin 2. factory system - workers do work at a central location (factory), built near rivers that could supply water power D. New Iron-making processes 1.
Industrial Revolution: 11 To 14 Years
Cotton Times A broadbased site covering the industrial revolution from several radicals,reformers and health pioneers, and most importantly, the workers.
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Extractions: Textile Industry : An encyclopedia of the Textile Industry in Britain between 1700 and 1900. The website includes information on the different aspects of the domestic system as well as the woolen, cotton, silk and linen industries. The website also features entries on twelve important textile inventions and biographies of inventors (16) and entrepreneurs (28). There is also a series of lessons available that simulates the debate that took placed in the 19th century on the morality and the economic value of child labour in textile factories. Industrial Revolution Sourcework : Designed to help lower ability and special educational needs pupils access sources and concepts related to the Industrial Revolution, the online lesson from School History guides pupils through a basic overview of the Industrial Revolution. Through gap filling exercises pupils go through the basics of source analysis and then analyse two sources from the Industrial Revolution. Extension exercises and quizzes are then available.
The Industrial Revolution
Professor Gerhard Rempel, Department of History, Western New England College introduces the industrial Category Society History Eighteenth Century industrial revolution In addition to a new factoryowning bourgeoisie, the industrial revolution createda new working class. The new class of industrial workers included all the men
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Extractions: The Industrial Revolution may be defined as the application of power-driven machinery to manufacturing. It had its beginning in remote times, and is still continuing in some places. In the eighteenth century all of western Europe began to industrialize rapidly, but in England the process was most highly accelerated. England's head start may be attributed to the emergence of a number of simultaneous factors. Britain had burned up her magnificent oak forests in its fireplaces, but large deposits of coal were still available for industrial fuel. There was an abundant labor supply to mine coal and iron, and to man the factories. From the old commercial empire there remained a fleet, and England still possessed colonies to furnish raw materials and act as captive markets for manufactured goods. Tobacco merchants of Glasgow and tea merchants of London and Bristol had capital to invest and the technical know-how derived from the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Last, but not least important, the insularity of England saved industrial development from being interrupted by war. Soon all western Europe was more or less industrialized, and the coming of electricity and cheap steel after 1850 further speeded the process. I. The Agricultural Revolution
Lecture 17: The Origins Of The Industrial Revolution In England
was industrial capitalism nothing more than a clever system devised by clevercapitalists to exploit the labor of ignorant workers? was the revolution in
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Extractions: Lecture 17 The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in England The political and moral advantages of this country, as a seat of manufactures, are not less remarkable than its physical advantages. The arts are the daughters of peace and liberty. In no country have these blessings been enjoyed in so high degree, or for so long a continuance, as in England. Under the reign of of just laws, personal liberty and property have been secure; mercantile enterprise has been allowed to reap its reward; capital has accumulated in safety; the workman has "gone forth to his work and to his labour until the evening;" and, thus protected and favoured, the manufacturing prosperity of the country has struck its roots deep, and spread forth its branches to the ends of the earth. [Edward Baines, The History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain . [David Landes, The Unbound Prometheus The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880 The INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION can be said to have made the European working-class. It made the European middle-class as well. In the wake of the Revolution, new social relationships appeared. As
The Fourth Civilization Chapter 5.1 Tracing A Second Industrial Revolution
The machine revolution proceeded simultaneously through all parts of the The machinesof the industrial age, though as them from the human workers before them.
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Extractions: The Industrial Revolution involved harnessing machines for production previously done by hand. By "second industrial revolution" is meant the automation of those same tasks so machines require few, if any, human attendants. This is not new, for the entire machine age tells the story of machines having ever greater efficiency, power, and productivity. Automated textile devices first claimed the livelihood of thousands of independent artisans when the English garment and lace factories came into being in the early nineteenth century. Each machine that mechanized work previously done by hand reduced the number of people required to produce a given quantity of goods. This affected agriculture and industry simultaneously. The machine revolution proceeded simultaneously through all parts of the economy because the various sectors competed for raw materials and human resources. Also, new technologies developed for one industry are applied to others in short order. The machines of the industrial age, though as diverse as the industries in which they were employed, had one thing in common that distinguished them from the human workers before them. Each was a speciality device, designed and built for a specific task. To accommodate any subsequent changes in an industry invariably meant
Beyond The Information Revolution - 99.10
The industrial revolution also had a great impact on the family. leaving family membersbehind whether spouses of adult factory workers or, especially in
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Extractions: HE truly revolutionary impact of the Information Revolution is just beginning to be felt. But it is not "information" that fuels this impact. It is not "artificial intelligence." It is not the effect of computers and data processing on decision-making, policymaking, or strategy. It is something that practically no one foresaw or, indeed, even talked about ten or fifteen years ago: e-commerce that is, the explosive emergence of the Internet as a major, perhaps eventually the major, worldwide distribution channel for goods, for services, and, surprisingly, for managerial and professional jobs. This is profoundly changing economies, markets, and industry structures; products and services and their flow; consumer segmentation, consumer values, and consumer behavior; jobs and labor markets. But the impact may be even greater on societies and politics and, above all, on the way we see the world and ourselves in it. Discuss this article in More on in The Atlantic Monthly and Atlantic Unbound.
The NEXT Industrial Revolution (Part Three)
HE Next industrial revolution incorporates positive intentions across a wide spectrumof Shoe companies have been blamed for exposing workers in factories
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Extractions: NCIENT nomadic cultures tended to leave organic wastes behind, restoring nutrients to the soil and the surrounding environment. Modern, settled societies simply want to get rid of waste as quickly as possible. The potential nutrients in organic waste are lost when they are disposed of in landfills, where they cannot be used to rebuild soil; depositing synthetic materials and chemicals in natural systems strains the environment. The ability of complex, interdependent natural ecosystems to absorb such foreign material is limited if not nonexistent. Nature cannot do anything with the stuff by design : many manufactured products are intended not to break down under natural conditions. If people are to prosper within the natural world, all the products and materials manufactured by industry must after each useful life provide nourishment for something new. Since many of the things people make are not natural, they are not safe "food" for biological systems. Products composed of materials that do not biodegrade should be designed as technical nutrients that continually circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles the technical metabolism. In order for these two metabolisms to remain healthy, great care must be taken to avoid cross-contamination. Things that go into the biological metabolism should not contain mutagens, carcinogens, heavy metals, endocrine disrupters, persistent toxic substances, or bio-accumulative substances. Things that go into the technical metabolism should be kept well apart from the biological metabolism.
Industrial Revolution
, 19th century The migrant workers that went The industrial revolution providedthem with better means of transportation to travel longer distances more easily
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Extractions: A demographic revolution took place in this period. Population grew very quickly due to a decreased death rate and increased fertility. Most people still lived in the countryside. Between 1750 and 1815, only 7% of the European population lived in cities. Life in the villages changed, however. Agricultural production became more intensive and large scale (to produce raw materials for the rural industry) and as a result, the number of farmers without land grew. Towns with rural industry grew and provided much work. In other towns, trade and industry grew. World trade and politics became more influential in the every-day life of the villagers. The group of proletarians grew quickly due to downwards social mobility and the fact that proletarians had more children than farmers. In the 19th century, population continued to grow. In many countries, population doubled. Increasing scaling also continued and thus, the number of proletarians likewise continued to grow. The landless farmers did not have the security they had previously when working for a land owning farmer. Modern farmers did not hire help for a whole year anymore, but only for the harvest season. Because they now only produced one or two crops, the harvest season was very short as well. The economy needed teams of harvesters that went from town to town. Many people moved around in Western and also in Eastern Europe after the abolition of serfdom in 1861. By 1850, the countryside had become very overcrowded, partially because of the rural industry that was located there. Malthus developed a theory on the population growth. Too much population growth would lead to disaster and misery.
Links Sociale Geschiedenis
The Physical Deterioration of the Textile workers, The physical deterioration ofthe 1930s, more than a century after the height of the industrial revolution.
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Extractions: Opleiding Geschiedenis Sociale Geschiedenis Links Popular culture Working class ... Urban History Specific Leiden Social History webpages: History of International Migration Very complete survey of Migration History sources History of Love and Marriage Popular Culture The Gentleman A concept of a 19th century gentleman. Moral Hegemony and Moralism This site gives us a picture of the change in the standards of morality, wich was influenced by religion, during the 19th century. The Unsuitable Suitor of 1879 Courtship and the gentle art of saying no in the late Victorian Age. A glimpse into daily life. Eighteenth Century Society: An overview A basic survey of 18th century society. Leisure and the Spinning Room in 18th-Century Germany This essay by Rick Heli discusses leisure in Germany.
Artzia: The Industrial Revolution
in 1700 and that the crucial differences which created the industrial Revolutionin Europe was not wholly smooth, for in England the Luddites workers who saw
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Extractions: History Arts About Literature Music ... Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution Howard Rheingold Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins Leap! A Revolution in Creative Business Strategy Bob Schmetterer The Reengineering Revolution: A Handbook Michael Hammer, Steven A. Stanton The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business Alfred Dupont Chandler The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 Eric J. Hobsbawm Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700 Carlo M. Cipolla The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective Joel Mokyr An Introduction to Economic History Christine Rider, Eugene Hite Lean Machines: Learning From the Leaders of the Next Industrial Revolution Richard A. McCormack The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century was a period of social and technological change in which manufacturing began to rely on steam power rather than on water or wind. The causes of the Industrial Revolution remain a topic for debate with some historians seeing it as an outgrowth from the social changes of the Enlightenment and the colonial expansion of the 17th century. The Industrial Revolution began in the Midlands area of England and spread throughout England and into continental Europe and the northern United States in the 19th century. Before the improvements made to the pre-existing steam engine by James Watt and others, all manufacturing had to rely for power on wind or water mills or muscle power produced by animals or humans. But with the ability to translate the potential energy of steam into mechanical force, a factory could be built away from streams and rivers, and many tasks that had been done by hand in the past could be mechanized. If, for example, a lumber mill had been limited in the number of logs it could cut in a day due to the amount of water and pressure available to turn the wheels, the steam engine eliminated that dependence. Grain mills, thread and clothing mills, and wind driven water pumps could all be converted to steam power as well.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, USA
overseas employ legions of foreign workers. These corporations are increasinglyfree to locate wherever they wish. This new industrial revolution is also
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Extractions: (Table of Contents) In this new industrial revolution, no single country has taken the leading role, the way England did in the first industrial revolution. The United States, while inventing much of the technology of this revolution, has often fallen behind in the decisive area of production. Production has become international. The car you purchased last month in Pittsburgh may well have been financed in Japan, designed in Detroit, manufactured in ten countries as far apart as Malaysia and Germany and assembled in Mexico. Goods, capital, information and services, even whole factories, whisk around the globe at breathtaking speed, in a market increasingly dominated by vast multinational enterprises, international financial institutions and speculators. Today multinational corporations, the driving force of globalization, employ some 10% of American manufacturing workers. US- owned multinationals overseas employ legions of foreign workers. These corporations are increasingly free to locate wherever they wish. This new industrial revolution is also transforming the shop floor. Assisted by robots, computers and high-speed telecommunications, teams of well-trained workers adapt versatile machinery to rapidly changing product specifications. Similar transformations are increasingly evident in the commercial and service sectors. The most important aspect of this process is not new technology, but the new social relations that develop in the workplace. Rote, physical labor is being replied by labor which is more mental, flexible and cooperative. The 21st Century worker will not need physical strength and "factory discipline" as much as the capacity for analysis, judgment and cooperation. In effect, the new workers are becoming managers in a much more sophisticated production system.
Industry
History Page The industrial revolution Outline on the industrial revolution PrintableVersion. Review Questions Ch. workers and Factory Conditions. Child Labor.
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