The Industrial Revolution

What are the 6 reasons the IR started in Britain?

natural resources, large supply of labour, pro-business gov’t, capital, colonies, industrial enlightenment

What are the natural resources?

coal = energy → fuel→ steam engine → machines

iron → cast-iron = products + factories

What is the pro-business gov’t?

businessmen + landowners → parliament that creates laws that favour business

What is the capital?

non-anglican restricted from gov’t → turned to business = $ → invest into industrial development

What are colonies?

Britain has biggest colony = raw resources + wealth

India + usa = cotton → textile industry → mass production

What is the industrial enlightenment?

capitalist ($) + scientists (ideas) = invention

What is the large supply of labour?

Agriculture rev = skilled workers → cities → factory workers

What was it like before the AR in farming?

subsistence farming, 3 crop rotation

what does enclosing fields mean?

limiting access to peasants → work in cities or hired labour on farm

What was it like after enclosing fields in the AR?

Land under tight control = more productive → food production → money

What was the seed drill?

3 in 1 actions = increase in food production and prevented natural effects

What was the Rotherham plough?

iron blade = easy to use and only 2 horses and 1 person → cut cost and labour time

What are the benefits of the 4 crop rotation system?

turnips = better crops, more food → pop increase, livestock food

What is this?

the spinning jenny, could spin multiple spindles

What is this?

the water frame, 100 spindles, water powered = bigger buildings → first factories

What is this?

the spinning mule, 1300 spindles

What is this?

the power loom, weave threads

What is this?

the cotton gin, harvest cotton

What is the cottage industry?

goods were sold and produced locally and in a small scale

Why was the cottage industry ineffective?

could not keep pace with growing demand by pop increase

What is the factory industry?

factories = goods produced on large scale

Why were factories built in cities?

cities were built on water = water power, transportation → shipping goods

How was the pop. utilized and infleunced by factories?

AR = skilled workers in cities for factories,

success of factories = pop increase

How did the factory system advance the IR?

factories in city = mass production + pop increase

Why was child labour needed?

high demand in factories + low wages → children, family couldn’t afford child, some jobs are only for children

What were the 2 waves of children?

1\. orphans → state-sponsored slavery

2\. every child → cheap labour

What is state-sponsored slavery?

work instead of social welfare, orphans not paid but given basic needs

What were the children’s attitudes about going to work?

Propaganda = possibility of independent worker, education, meals, housing, skills

What types of child labour jobs are there?

chimney sweeper, textile factory worker, miner trapper boy

Why did the gov’t respond to child labour?

grown up children formed unions, Oliver Twist, Sadler report = investigation → public shock → pressure

Because of the pro-business gov’t, many wanted to follow the economic policy… which means…

laissez-faire/no gov’t regulations bc regulations cut into profit

What were the working conditions for the workers?

low wages, long hours, abuse, unions illegal

What did the gov’t do with child labour?

education replaces labour

What was the significance of child labour in the development of the factory system?

capitalists needed cheap labour to expand, low wages = no cut in profit, some jobs are just for children

Who were the upper class?

society, big network, old rich (inherited) or new rich (factory owners)

Who were the middle class?

grew during the IR, father worked in professions or business

Who were the lower middle class?

white-collar workers

Who were the working class?

worked in trades or factory, farmers, 80%, blue-collar workers, skilled/unskilled/casual labour

What was the energy development?

hand powered → water → coal/steam

What are the benefits of iron?

easy/cheap to produce, build factories, England has huge supply

What was the problem in the mines with water?

water leaked into coal lines = consistent removal → harder deeper down = can’t get coal

What was the solution in the mines with water?

Newcomen made steam engine → adapted to power machines

What was the significance of the steam engine in the textile factory?

factories didn’t need water power → built everywhere = faster + mass production

Who and what are the significance of the adapted steam engine?

James Watt made it efficient → trains

What is the significance of trains?

travel industry, army travel, info/mail travel, raw resources → factories → goods → market → sold = profit, allowed the mass production of goods to be moved

What was the standardization of time?

railroads switched to Greenwich mean time from local time (varied) → synchronized time all around the world

Why was there railroad time?

confusing, accidents,

What is the significance of steamships?

raw resources brought to England by colonies faster

What is the significance of canals?

linked river systems together = reduced cost by 75% + one barge = 100 horses

What was the negative to the transformation of energy?

coal demand staggered = intensive mining → exploits enviroment

What was the positive to the transformation of energy?

England became global superpower

What are the 4 positive effects of the IR?

class structure, labour unions, role of women, urbanization

What are the 5 negative effects of the IR?

daily life, working conditions, life expectancy, living conditions, seperation of work and home

What is the development in class structures?

2 classes (wealthy/peasent) → 3 classes (upper/middle/working)

What was the development in the role of women?

paid 1/2 of men → feminist movements for equality

What was the development in urbanization?

rural → city =massize growth in city pop

What was the development in the rise of labour unions?

no gov’t regulations → unions for shorter hours, higher pay, safety, education, healthcare

What was the development in daily life?

for working class life deteriorated when in cities, life was a routine of hard work, poorhouses

What was the development in life expectancy?

decreased for working class, 25%-33% died before 5

What was the development in living conditions?

cities: crowded, dirty, polluted, no proper streets/sewage, no clean water, slums, disease spread

What was the development in working conditions?

large labour supply = conditions of work set by factory owners : long days/week, low pay, division of labour (monotonous), very dangerous

What was the development in separation of home and work

in cottage era: families worked in unit to provide with equal gender roles

in factory era: work and home separated → decline of female’s economic role

What was the development in socialism?

Robert Owen wanted to improve workers’ lives → rejected laissez-faire bc it didn’t address social concerns

What was the development in new laws after the first wave of the IR?

correct social concerns: child labour → education, labour unions are legal, cities got sanitation and better planning