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Industrial Revolution - Coggle Diagram
Industrial Revolution
Consequences
Family Life
Large numbers of women were employed for low-skill, repetitive jobs in textile mills. This changed the traditional families in which women stayed at home and focused on raising children.
Despite this, a large number of women also worked from home, primarily cutting and sewing cloth.
Rise of Labor Movements
Factory employers had extremely strict rules for workers, and the factories themselves were harsh places. Hazardous conditions led to common workplace accidents .
Artisans whose jobs were put in danger by the output of factories were the first to oppose them. They broke into factories and mills and smashed the machines.
Eventually, the movement became more focused on tackling the issue through legislative reform. Their efforts were somewhat successful: labor by children below the age of nine was prohibited in 1830. The reform did not go as far as they hoped, however.
Economic Instability
Few families could make enough money to pass unscathed through the economy's business cycles. 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
Entrepreneurs, bankers, and business moved for more freedom, wanting as little government influence in the economy as possible.
Lives of People
Huge amounts of people moved away from the country and into the city, allowing urbanization to develop
Cities were cramped and unsanitary, and urban families were forced to work long hours for small wages
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Expansion
German-speaking Europe
The lands that Napoleon had conquered emancipated serfdom, but poor economic conditions forced them to work for their lords again
Productivity soared, but high population growth increased competition
Artisans were out-manufactured by Britain's cheap, industrially produced textiles
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Rest of the World
Huge deposits of coal and iron, as well as close proximity to to British 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.
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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France did not mechanize much in the first half of the nineteenth century, but manufacturing production did increase as demand rose highly
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