SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.5: Spinning Frame, Living Wage
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And so it was that by the end of the eighteenth century, the traditional view of the social world came to be as suspect as the old views of the natural world. Some people even had the audacity to propose that kings reigned not by divine right but simply to serve the needs of the people! If that was true, then if a king failed to serve his people, he should be replaced. This very revolutionary idea was reflected in the american declaration of. Independence in 1776 and the french declaration of the rights of man and citizen in 1789 and was behind the many revolutions that occurred in europe in the late- eighteenth and early-to-mid-nineteenth centuries. Still, this new world was a fragile one. Compounding the problem was the fact that technology kept bringing about even more changes. Richard arkwright"s invention of the water-powered spinning frame, for example, led to the building of giant textile mills.
