Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Industrial Revolution
- Transport
Revolution
- Advances in
Navigation
- Construction of
canals
- The launched of the first
steamboat
- Built and repair some roads
- The railway
age
- Possible because of...
- The used of iron to build
railways
- The used of Steam engines
- George Stephenson built a steam-powered
locomotive
- This avances made cheaper the used of
railways
- Impact
- Mainly social and economical
- Trade
- Specialisation
- Mining and
metallurgy
- Daily life
- The Second Industrial
Revolution
- New Energy Sources and
industries
- Main sources
- Electricity
- Used to power
machinary
- Petroleum
- Used for the combustion
engine
- Main
industries
- Iron and Steel Industry
- Improved because of the Bessemer
- Chemical
Industry
- Some materials use to produced
others
- Electical
industriy
- Companies and
banks
- Creation of
corporations
- Some people could became
shareholders
- The importance of banks led to financial
capitalism
- New systems of production
- taylorism
- small taks that were
timed
- assembly line
- products go from one worker to
another
- mass production
- Created a mass production of
something
- Corporate Groups
- Cartel
- Holding
company
- Trust
- The labour movement
- Early labour movements
- Luddism
- New technologies made people lose jobs and in response, they destroyed machines
- Chartism
- Presentation of People´s Charter to the British Parliament (Universal suffrage and labour rights)
- Trade unions
- Mutual aid societies
- After 1824, the first trade unions appeared, They demanded: better salaries, shorter work days....
- Marxism
- Communist
Manifesto
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Class struggle, revolution started by a proletarian dictatorship
- Development of socialist
parties
- The workers' internationals
- International Workingmen´s Association (IWA)
- 1889, Socialist International, International Workers´day
- Anarchism
- Pierre-Joseph Produhon and Mikhail
Bakunin
- Opposed to any form of state, hope to replace it with voluntary
associations
- The spread of the Industrial Revolution
- Belgium
- Abundant natural
resources,
craftmanship, coal
mines...
- Japan under Emperor Meiji
- Meiji period ( 1868-1912 )
- Textiles and heavy
industry
- Corporations dominated several
industries
- Japan became industrialized between 19-20th
century
- Industrialization in the United States
- Innovation
- Large domestic
market
- Specialised production
- Abundant natural resources
- Extensive agricultural production
- Russia
- Heavy industry, foreign
investment, state
protectionism
- Germany
- Zollverein
- Alliance between agrarian
nobles and industrial
bourgeoisie
- Iron and steel
- France
- Not as
industrialized as
Britain, slow
population
growth...
- Sweden
- iron industry
- Origins
- What was the industrial Revolution?
- Period of profund economic
and social changes, caused
by the use of machinery in
production
- Agrarian societies
were transformed
into urban
societies.
- 2 stages:
- First Industrial Revolution (began around 1760)
- Second Industrial Revolution (began around 1870)
- Demographic Revolution
- In late 18th century, there was high
population growth; this was because
death rate decreased and birth rate
continued to be high
- Death Rate decreased for several reasons:
- Nutrition
improved
- Personal and
public hygiene
was widespread
- Public health
improved
- Epidemics
caused fewer
deaths
- Agricultural Revolution
- Farming Tecniques
- Four-field system
- New farming machines
- Land became private property
- Part of the land was used to grow
food for llivestock
- Other factors affecting
economic growth
- Extensive
markets
- Britain had a healthy market
- Good infrastructure
- Absence of domestic
tariffs
- New
mentality
- Burgeoisie was more open to
investment and business
- Abundance of Iron and
coal
- First Industrial Revolution
- From Workshop to factory
- Until 18th century products were hand-made, but
several machines were invented which
manufactured products much more quicky.
- First, these machines were hidraulic, but with the
invention of the steam engine(By James Watt) they
became steam-powered
- Workshops were replaced by
factories
- Manufacturing process was based on division of
labour; each worker was specialised in a task
- Textile Industry
- Cotton grown in Britain´s colonies
provided the country with cheap
and abundant raw material
- Introduced innovations in spinning and weaving
- When machines became
steam-powered production
expanded; 350,000 people
worked on the textile industry
- Iron
Industry
- Until 18th century, iron
used in England was
imported from Sweden
- This was very expensive, but it
became cheaper when in 1709
Darby invented the blast
furnance(to smelt iron using
products which came from
coal)
- In late 18th century, Henry Cort invented a new
type of furnance for making large amounts of
wrought iron
- Economic liberalism
- Economic liberalism spread
widely, it was based on Adam
Smith´s theories from his book
`The wealth of nations´
- According to Smith, economic activity should be govern by the
principle of economic freedom(freedom to create companies,
hire workers, etc..)
- He argued that the state should not intervene in the economy, as it
adjusts itself by means of invisible hand(it regulates itself by the law of
supply and demand
- Effects of Industrialisation
- Population growth
- Population grew quickly and in Europe doubled
- Causes
- Death rate deacreased due to improvement in food suply and in hygene.
- Birth rate increased because economy grew and people got married earlier and had more children
- An age of migration
- Urbanisation: peasants migatred to the cities in search of work.
- Industrial Revolution caused farm work to be industrialised
- Cities did not have de capacity to keep all the peasants that were migrating so they emigrated to other continents
- Transoceanic migration phases:
- Up to 1870: most emigrants were British and north european
- 1870-1924: many emigrants were Italian, Spanish, Turkish and Greeek.
- Most of the emigrants went to America(USA), Canada, Brazil and Argentina.
- The class system
- A new society
- Three sociales estates: Upper class, Middle class and Lower class.
- They were defined by its wealth
- Judicial Equality: men were judged the same and there were few legal barriers
- Inequalities
- Women inequality
- Economic inequality
- Decline of Aristocracy
- In the 19th century, aristrocracy lost power
and started to pay taxes and they didnt
benefit from the expansion of the business.
However they still mantained luxurious lifes as
well as the burgueoisie.
- Emergence of the burgeosie
- They became the most powerful
class. It was formed by the bankers,
industrialists, businessmans, high
officials and lawyers. They lived in the city outskirts
- Bugueois values
- Hard work, savings and enjoying
the security of family life
- Middle class
- It was formed of tradesmen, shopkeepers, artisans, teachers...
- They also had the Burgueois values
- They went to cafes, casinos and social clubs when they had free time
- Lower class
- Peasants: Some owned
lands, other were day
labourers and earned
low wages. Peasants
were still serfs.
- The proletariat:
workers who
worked for a small
salary. Their
children left school
at young age to help
the family and they
couldnt change
their position in
society.
- House servants:They earned little salaries
and lived in the attic of the house where
they worked in. They worked a lot and had
little rest.