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Industrial Revolution (Causes of the Industrial revolution (Agricultural…

- - - - Food production
        
        And Hygiene
  - - - Extensive agricultural holdings
    - - John Deere´s Steel plough
        
        McCormick´s mechanised harvester
    - - Prevent soil exhaustion
  - - - Atlantic Oceans
      - Indian Oceans
    - - Roads and waterways
  - - - Key element of industration
- - - - capital to invest in industry
  - - - the profits from trade were invested in industry
  - - - Cheaper to produce
- - - - Mechanical weaving
        
        Lower prices
    - - Large Works needed
        
        División of labour
    - - Flying Shuttle ( John Kay´s)
      - Spinning Jenney (James Hargreaves)
      - Water Frame ( Richard Arkwright´s)
      - Spinning mule ( Samuel Crompton´s)
      - Power weaving Loom ( Edmund Cartwright´s)
  - - - Bessemer converter
        
        Transform iron into steel
        
        Transport
        
        rails, steam locomotives, carriages and boats
        
        Industry
        
        Arms such as
        
        guns and cannons
        
        In agriculture
        
        Ploughs, harvester and tools
        
        Construction
        
        briges and buildings
  - - - waterways and roads
      - Transported easily amd quickly
    - - Steamship
      - Steam locomotive
    - - made posible to move large quantities of products more quickly
- - - - destruction of capitalism
        
        Class struggle:
        
        proletariat would organise themselves
        
        struggle against their oppressors,
        
        gain political power.
        
        dictatorship of the working classes:
        
        the working classes would establish a new social and political order.
        
        The communist economy:
        
        private property (capitalism) would be abolished.
        
        means of production would be socialised:
        
        owners of the means of production,
        
        all economic activity would be collective.
        
        class-based society would disappear
        
        Society would be equal and without classes.
  - - - Individual freedom:
        
        people had to fight against any authority
        
        or institution that limited freedom,
      - Direct action:
        
        each citizen should represent him or herself,
      - Abolition of private property:
        
        society would be organised into independent communes.
        
        production would be owned collectively
- - - - Source of energy
    - - ploughing the soil
      - Threshing cereal
    - - Mould iron and print books
      - Minig, used to dig out
      - Transport
        
        Trains and steamships
- - - - Conditions
        
        Abundant reserves of coal and iron
        
        Raw materials and energy souces
        
        Population growth
        
        Demand for industrial products
        
        Capital
        
        For investement in industry
        
        Railway networks
        
        Transport products
    - - Extensive railway network
      - Abundance of mineral sources, especially coal
      - Naval industry
    - - Thanks to trade
      - new agricultural techniques
      - raw materials
- - - - As a result of the late-18th century
        revolutions.
      - The French Revolution abolished the
        privileges of the nobility and the clergy.
      - the increased the of importance and power of the wealthy
        bourgeoisie,
    - - The upper class: made up of the wealthiest people
        
        the wealthy bourgeoisie, or bourgeois capitalists
        
        profits from their businesses
        
        became the dominant social group.
        
        the nobility,
        
        who continued to receive high incomes from their agricultural holdings.
      - The middle class
        
        had a medium level of wealth,
        
        and higher incomes than the working class.
        
        civil servants, lawyers and doctors who provided services.
        
        small-scale merchants and craftsmen who owned their workshops or shops.
        
        farmers who owned small agricultural holdings and cultivated their own lands.
      - working class
        
        lived in extreme poverty.
        
        tenant farmers,
        
        seasonal work and were paid by the day.
        
        industrial workers
        
        proletariat.
        
        They did not own property and their wages were usually low.