Industrial Revolution Outline
I. Patterns on Industrialization
A. The Factory System
1. Original
a) Putting-out system
b) Few workers
c) Centered in household
2. Middle
a) Larger units of production
b) Rise of protoindustrial factories
c) Water and wind power
3. Final
a) Factory system
b) Technological advances
c) Brought together skilled workers
d) Urbanization
4. Factory system
a) Stations with different tasks
b) High productivity
c) Unskilled workers
d) Horrible working conditions
e) Protests (Luddites)
B. The Early Spread of Industrialization
1. UK
a) Attempted to monopolize industrialization
b) Forbade the sale of machinery to other countries
2. Foreign countries
a) British engineers bribed/kidnapped
b) Machines smuggled
c) Industrialization spread
d) Growth in Belgium and France
e) Poor growth in Germany (no political stability)
f) American industrialization (1820) Economic powerhouse (1900)
C. Industrial Capitalism
1. Production
a) Eli Whitney-Cotton Gin
b) Henry Ford-Assembly Line
2. Rise of Big Business (corporations)
a) Elimination of competition
b) Investing
c) Monopolies
d) Vertical organization (of business)
II. Industrial Society
A. Effects
1. Inexpensive products
2. Increase in standard of living
3. Population growth
4. Migrations (both internal and external)
5. Urbanization
6. Emergence of new social classes
7. Rise of socialists (for the working class)
B. The Fruits of Industry
1. Population
2. Standards of living
3. Healthcare
4. Demographic transition
C. Urbanization and Migration
1. Movement into cities
a) Rise of cities
b) Environmental pollution
2. Disease
a) Tenements/Crowded conditions within cities -> unsanitary conditions
3. Public works
4. Prohibiting construction of tenements -> improved sanitation
5. Transcontinental Migration
a) Immigration to Americas
(1) Increased labor pool -> rapid industrialization
D. Industry and Society
1. New Social Classes
a) Decline of slave labor in cities
b) Small but powerful elite aristocratic class
c) Middle class – skilled workers
A. The Factory System
1. Original
a) Putting-out system
b) Few workers
c) Centered in household
2. Middle
a) Larger units of production
b) Rise of protoindustrial factories
c) Water and wind power
3. Final
a) Factory system
b) Technological advances
c) Brought together skilled workers
d) Urbanization
4. Factory system
a) Stations with different tasks
b) High productivity
c) Unskilled workers
d) Horrible working conditions
e) Protests (Luddites)
B. The Early Spread of Industrialization
1. UK
a) Attempted to monopolize industrialization
b) Forbade the sale of machinery to other countries
2. Foreign countries
a) British engineers bribed/kidnapped
b) Machines smuggled
c) Industrialization spread
d) Growth in Belgium and France
e) Poor growth in Germany (no political stability)
f) American industrialization (1820) Economic powerhouse (1900)
C. Industrial Capitalism
1. Production
a) Eli Whitney-Cotton Gin
b) Henry Ford-Assembly Line
2. Rise of Big Business (corporations)
a) Elimination of competition
b) Investing
c) Monopolies
d) Vertical organization (of business)
II. Industrial Society
A. Effects
1. Inexpensive products
2. Increase in standard of living
3. Population growth
4. Migrations (both internal and external)
5. Urbanization
6. Emergence of new social classes
7. Rise of socialists (for the working class)
B. The Fruits of Industry
1. Population
2. Standards of living
3. Healthcare
4. Demographic transition
C. Urbanization and Migration
1. Movement into cities
a) Rise of cities
b) Environmental pollution
2. Disease
a) Tenements/Crowded conditions within cities -> unsanitary conditions
3. Public works
4. Prohibiting construction of tenements -> improved sanitation
5. Transcontinental Migration
a) Immigration to Americas
(1) Increased labor pool -> rapid industrialization
D. Industry and Society
1. New Social Classes
a) Decline of slave labor in cities
b) Small but powerful elite aristocratic class
c) Middle class – skilled workers