Industrial Revolution

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Industrial Revolution
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Pre-Industrial Society

• Common people lived as the ancients did
• Villages, small families
• Farming economy
• 1 in 2 people lived to 21 life expectancy 40
• Little social change
• over time

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Began in England in the 1700s

• Natural Resources coal and iron
• Capital (from increased commerce)
• Growing population
• skilled workers who designed the machinery,
• wealthy entrepreneurs (businesspeople) to invest
  
• many people who sought work

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Industrial Revolution in England
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Early Industries

• Textiles (Spinning Jenny, Power Loom)
• Steam Engine
• Replaced water power
• Could be located anywhere
• Iron Used for weapons, railroads

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Traditional Spinning Wheel
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Spinning Jenny

• 1700 one hour of weaving required the yarn from
  15 hours of spinning
• 1800 one spinner could keep two weavers fully
  occupied and produced as much yarn as 200
  domestic spinners could have done before the
  invention of the jenny

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• Factory system- method of production in which
  goods are made by workers machines in a factory

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Steam Engine
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Factory near water
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Steam Locomotive
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Factory System
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Children working
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Social Changes

• Growth of middle class
• Assembly line/interchangeable parts
• Idiot-proof work environment
• Child labor
• Unsafe working conditions
• Creation of unions, socialism
• Karl Marx sociologist, fought for the
  proletariat (worker)
• 3 types of alienation from Industrial Revolution
• Alienation from the means of production
• Alienation from other people
• Alienation from yourself (species being)