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Industrial Revolution
- time period when men were replaced with machines
- began in mid 1700s in Great Britain
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Enclosure
large fields enslosed by fences or hedges
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crop rotation
- planting different plants at different times of the year
- one year plant something that removes nutrients - then next year plant something that restores nutrients
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Industrialization
process of developing machine production of goods
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Factors of Production
- resources needed to produce goods and services that the IR required
- land labor and wealth
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Entrepreneur
person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risk of business
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Urbanization
city building and the movement of people to cities
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Middle Class
a social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers
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Working conditions were affected
- industry created many new jobs
- factories were dirty, unsafe, and dangerous
- factory bosses were mean to workers
- LONG TERM EFFECT: workers won higher wages, shorter hours, better conditions
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Social classes were affected
- Factory workers were overworked and underpaid
- skilled workers rose to lower middle class, and factory owners formed upper middle class
- Upper class dislike those in middle class that became wealthier than them
- LONG TERM EFFECT: standard of living generally rose
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Size of cities were affected
- factories brought job seekers to cities
- urban areas multiplied in size
- many cities specialized in certain industries
- LONG TERM EFFECT: suburbs grew as people fled crowded cities
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Living conditions were affected
- cities lacked sanitary codes and building controls
- Housing, water, and social services were scarce
- Epidemics swept through cities
- LONG TERM EFFECT: Housing, diet, and clothing improved
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how and why did the industrial revolution begin in Britain?
- small place
- ambitious people
- had lots of natural resources
- had expanding economy
- had business men that were willing to invest in the creations of inventions
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Why did textile industry develop first?
- due to popultaion BOOM due to agriculture industrialization the demand for clothes increased
- To provide enough clothes, inventions needed to be made that allowed cheap mass production of clothing
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How did industrialization spread to America?
- They had same natural resouces which allowed easy industrialization
- English worker Samuel Slater emigrated to US with copy of textile machines and built a spinning machine
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Stocks
- certain right of ownership
- people that bought stocks owned part of the business
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Corporations
business owned by stockholders who share the profits but are not responsible for debts
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What were impacts of Industrialization world-wide?
- increased competition between industrialized nations
- increased poverty in less developed nations
- wealthy nations took resources from poor nations
- brought imperialism: extending one country's rule over many other lands making the already wealthy country more powerful
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Laissez Faire
- letting owners of industries set working conditions without interference
- believe that nations grow wealthy by setting heavy tariffs on foreign goods
- believe that government regulations interfere with wealth and production
- believe that free trade would help economy prosper
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Adam Smith
- defended idea of free economy and made 3 laws
- Law of self interest: people work for their own good
- Law of competition: competition forces people to make better products
- Law of supply and demand: enough goods made at lowest price to meet demand in a market economy
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Capitalism
- economic system in which factors of production are privately owned and money is inested in business ventures to make profit
- it was branched off beliefs of Laissez Faire
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Utilitarianism
- people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions, on basis of its usefulness
- belief that government should try to promote the greatest good for the greatest number of people
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Bourgeoisie
- 'haves'
- employers
- controlled means of producing goods
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Proletariat
- 'have nots'
- workers
- performed labor under tolerable conditions
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Socialism
- factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the well-fare of all
- it grew out of Capitalism along with belief in progress and concern of social justice
- believed that if government rook control of industries it would promote equality and it would end poverty
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Marxism
- introduced by Karl Marx
- radical form of socialism
- believed that IR enriched the wealthy and impoverished the poor
- believed that capitalism will wither due to revolts of large proletariat population
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Communism
- complete socialism in which all means of production would be owned by the people
- no such thing as private property
- everything is shared equally
- Led to reform movements
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Dehuminization
- stripping human qualities from men creating them into robots or animals
- This prevents uniqueness
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Human Environment
the environment surrounding us that we live in and have to deal with (work, nature, other people)
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Social Dislocation
the act of disrupting an established order so that it fails to continue
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