HIST 215 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 - The Industrial Revolution
13 Nov 2017
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Lecture 8 - the industrial revolution: coketown. Coketown can be anywhere during the industrial town. Factories of workers: wrote after a century after the ir. No country had ever developed an economic system that endure a progressive and prosperous growth. Can be traced back to the 16th c. Abundance of land to graze on--production of higher quality of wool and cloth than continental europe. Businesses that developed based on this-dying, wool, etc. Creation of london as the center of export and manufacturing spin-offs and expansion of london (1500: 50,000; 1700: 600,000) proto-industrialization (cottage industry) Led to relatively high wages: most ppl still remained poor. First time, increasing # able to afford more other than necessities such as tea, sugar, some ceramic plates. Increasing demand helped to stimulate the transatlantic trade and colonial trade stimulation of transatlantic and indian ocean trade growth of port cities (london, bristol, liverpool, glasgow) (b) agriculture. Shrinking # of farmers providing for food and necessities.
