industrialism • agrarian- & handicraft-centered economies shifted to • industry & machine-manufactured economies – transportation & communication improvements – harness inanimate sources of energy (i.e., wind, water, steam, coal, petroleum, etc.) – people don’t grow their own food, nor make their stuff; can exchange money for goods produced by others
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Industrialism agrarian- & handicraft-centered economies shifted to industry & machine-manufactured economies – transportation & communication improvements.
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industrialism
• agrarian- & handicraft-centered economies shifted to
• industry & machine-manufactured economies– transportation & communication improvements– harness inanimate sources of energy
(i.e., wind, water, steam, coal, petroleum, etc.)– people don’t grow their own food,
nor make their stuff; can exchange money for goods produced by others
adjusting to the city
agrarian time / rural time
clock time /mechanical time / city time
factory life
• social changes of industrial work– dependence on employer for livelihood– supervisors– single task• repetitive, boring, only a limited part of process• need to keep up w/ pace of machines .
– rage against the machines: Luddites (1811–1816) destroyed machines to protest changes in work patterns
Britain as early industrial leader
• coal deposits replaced wood for fuel• raw materials– colonies supplied– Britain processed
• Britain supplied Europe + North America w/ manufactured goods
Britain as early industrial leader
• raw materials supplied to Britain– timber (esp. Canada)– grain (food)– cotton (textiles)• replaced wool• independent United States supplied demand
(b/c of slavery)– shifted to India & Egypt during U.S. Civil War
than manual spinning wheel– Bessemer converter (1856)
• steel production made cheaper• harder & stronger than iron
diagram for a steam engine
Manchester, England, in 1843—smokestacks among densely packed urban buildings
the world catches up to Britain
• 50-year head-start in industrial revolution– protective:
forbade export of machines, techniques, & workers
• eventually spread to Germany, U.S., Belgium, France, southern Canada
• U.S. caught up by:– taxing British exports to U.S.– copying British machinery– finding a large labor supply• young women from rural/agricultural areas
the world catches up to Britain
• Russia & Japan– industrialized to avoid domination
by other industrial powers
• Africa, Asia, Latin America– primarily exported raw materials to industrial
countries
industrial revolution• Waltham Plan
– moved women from rural/agricultural areas to urban/industrial areas
– provided:• boarding houses• moral guidance
(curfews, no alcohol)• education, cultural,
& religious opportunities– women got:
• better pay & living conditions (than in rural areas)
• help for families & selves• more independence
cover of the August 1845 issue ofthe Lowell Offering,a magazine described as“A repository of original articles,written by ‘factory girls.’”
BLOG POST 16
• After reviewing the slide about the “Waltham Plan,” describe 3 ways in which the ideals of the Plan are portrayed on the cover of the August 1845 issue of the Lowell Offering.
industry in agriculturein the United States
• new strain of cotton developed, could grow away from water, but… seeds difficult to remove
• cotton gin (1793) removed seeds• huge impact on slavery• cotton became most important U.S. export– other countries dependent on U.S. cotton– northern U.S. supplied business & industrial
expertise
growth of cotton production & the slave population in the United States, 1790–1860