HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: James Kay-Shuttleworth, Indian Ocean Trade, Ned Ludd
9 Dec 2017
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Hist 215: lecture 8: the industrial revolution: coketown, why was britain first? (1500: 50,000; 1700: 600,000); proto-industrialization (cottage industry); stimulation of. Transatlantic and indian ocean trade; growth of port cities (london, bristol, liverpool, glasgow). England, s. wales coalfields); terrible housing conditions; manchester as (cid:498)shock city(cid:499) (cid:523)friedrich (d) resistance from luddites (cid:523)followers of (cid:498)general ned ludd(cid:499)(cid:524) in nottinghamshire, (cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:883)(cid:883)- steam from 1785--all dramatically reduced production costs. Engels, the condition of the working class in england (1844); james phillips kay, the moral and. Physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture in manchester (1832); slow govt. response (policing first from 1820s, sanitation from 1840s). shorter hours from 1830s.
