LABR 2P93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Second Industrial Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Karl Benz
19 Feb 2016
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Periodizing the global history of the working class. The early modern world: 1500-1800: the origins of the working class, emergence of capitalism and european expansion. The modern world: 1800-1975: the growth and diversification of the working class, industrialization and western dominance, slavery was not banned in the us until 1865. The contemporary world: 1975-present: the flattening of the working class, homogenizing, globalization and us supremacy. Start off small and goes to mostly south and central america. The relationship between industrialization and the working-class is a secondary theme of the lecture. We explore it more fully in lecture 9. A sense of how the world and economy is changing into an industrial society. The phrase industrial revolution continues to be commonly used, 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.
