HIST 215 Lecture 8: Industrial Revolution
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Hard times by charles dickens (1854: shows all that was wrong with industrial revolution, coketown = setting, could be any british city during industrial revolution, written after about a century of the industrial revolution. Wool britain was a relatively prosperous nation in early 18th century (only rivaled by. Netherlands: can be traced back to british wool industry from 16th century , a lot of sheep because of abundance of land to graze on. Higher quality wool = higher quality cloth than competitors: london = hub of wool industry, creates a lot of jobs. Dyers to dye cloth, merchants to sell cloth: expansion of london. Expands by population and land: move from countryside to cities, those who stayed in the countryside took up spinning and weaving wool in cottages. Cotton industry: led to relatively high wages. For the first time, increasing number of people can afford more than basic food and necessities. Increasing demand of products increased stimulation of transatlantic and.
