LABR 2P93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Spinning Wheel, Electric Light, Foxconn

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Periodizing the global history of the working class. Growth and diversification of the working class. West meaning europe, usa, canada and potentially australia. The phrase industrial revolution continues to be commonly use, but historians now prefer the term industrialization. Revolution implies a rupture and fast-paced, major change. This kind of change occurred in certain places and times. But from the perspective of global history, industrialization is a longer-term, slower process. We might say, it was revolutionary , but that there was no single. Dated in various ways, we can take this to refer to the 19th century, when the efficiency of machinery and production increased considerable, but continued to be based on established energy platforms: water, wind, coal (and coal-fired steam) By 1900, new energy platforms were coming into use. The second industrial revolution (1900-1950) electricity and oil, via the lightbulb and the gas-powered internal combustion engine.

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