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The Cotton Industry (Technological Innovations and Changes: (Boulton and…
The Cotton Industry
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Working conditions
Factories: the cotton factories worked on a time based system. the workers were put in unhealthy conditions and paid poor wages.
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Trade Unions: more people started working in cotton factories, union groups formed to protect and get rights for workers
Transportation:
George Stephensons rocket: applied the steam technology to build the first railroad and the Rocket that was a fast locomotive.
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Government Role
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Continental Europe: tired to borrow techniques and practices of great Britain and placed tariffs on British goods that were made very cheaply in industries such as the cotton industry
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Production in Factories
Urbanization: As the number of cotton factories went up, urbanization went up to as more people moved into the city for job opportunities
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The Putting Out System: Peasants used to spin the cotton, but as the demand increased for these goods, new technologies had to be made to compensate for this.
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The demand for cheap cloth incentivized the creation of the inventions that would power the Industrial Revolution
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As the costs grew, and more products needed to be moved, a quicker way to move products from one place to another was needed
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The cotton industry was at the heart of the of the industrial revolution in England and around the world during the 18th and 19th centuries due to the effect of factories on the cities and workers, the new technologies developed, and the effect of more efficient production in a changing society based on wealth. The cotton industry’s new technologies were soon spread abroad and therefore spreading the industrial revolution to other countries.
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The cotton Industry needed iron to make the machines of the factories and coal to power them, and helped expand those industries and they also powered the revolution
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