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Industrial revolution - Coggle Diagram
Industrial revolution
Consequences
Family Life
Women worked now in repetitive low-skill jobs that women did not fill the traditional at home mom role
Still, women worked from home
Rise of Labor Movements
Factory employers had strict rules for workers, factories were unsafe and hazardous
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Such movement were working passing a law that prohibited kids under the age of nie from working, but laws didn't go very far.
Economic Instability
Few families could make enough money to pass unscathed through the economy's business cycle. England's poor laws were an attempt at public assistance that helped only a little in exchange for living in terrible conditions.
When economic downturns left women in desperate conditions, many turned to prostitution
Economic Liberalism
Entrepenuers, bankers, and business moved from more freedom, wanting as little government influence in the economy as possible.
Lives of people
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Cities were a bad living space since families were cramped and sanitation was low. Also, families worked long hours for small wages
Changes
Energy Revolution(coal)
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With new houses being equipped with coal burning stoves, demand for coal increased.
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Agricultural revolution
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Enclosure movement helped farmers get bigger land. Also people moving to urban areas gave the prosperous farmers more land.
The new increased amount of food production helped sustain an evergrowing working class in urban areas thriving the industrial economy.
Steel
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By using coke (purified coal) smelters were able to make wrought iron that is very useful at making buildings and design.
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Expansion
France
The revolution gave peasants more land than ever before, and they adopted the new systems of crop rotation, thus increasing farm efficiency and output.
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G=France did not mechanize much in the first half of the nineteenth century, but manufacturing production did increase as demand rose highly
Germany
The lands tha Napoleon had conquered emancipated serfdom, but poor economic conditions forced them to work for their lords again
Productivitty soared, but high population growth increased competition
Artisans were out-manufactured by Britain's cheap, industrially produced textiles
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Rest of Europe
Huge deposits of coal and iron, as well as close proximity to Britain and French markets allowed Belgium to industrialize quickly and efficiently.
There were small pockets of growth in Italy, Eastern Europe, the Baltic region, western Russia, and the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans, however, suffered from Britain's free trade regime imposed on them.
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