industrial revolution - AP world

Industrial capitalism

Capitalists focused on production, factory and machinery based, wanted profit

Great britian/ Englands natural resources

Coal, burning of fossil fuels, and iron ore

Economic transformation

Agrarian to mechanized/ steam powered - led to more production and profit

Significance of steam engine

A technological advancement, used for machines, factories, and loco motives for rail roadsled to more production, made items cheaper, and goods being transported quickly

Working conditions

Very brutal, long hours, whipping and beatings, low pay, surrounded by oils and gas, caused stunted growth and disease

Technological diffusion

Canada and united states

Positive impact of Industrial Revolution

Mass production of goods, cheaper goods, innovations like steam boat, and loco motive railroads, advances in medicine

Negative impact of industrial revolution

Child and women labor, photo working conditions, stunted growth, environmental; air and water pollution, tenants and poor people, new dieseases

Marxism

Carl Marx did not support industrial capitalism, wanted the government involved i alternate vision for society

Proletariat

Working class, "have nots”

Bourgeoise

Factory and buttress owners, they have an things: money, land, greed

Class struggle

Oppressed us, oppressed, industrial capitalism created this, on were to resolve was communist revolution

Global effects of industrial revolution

Japan, manufactured goods increased drastically, women were primary workers, mass production of silk