GINS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Luddite, Cotton Gin, Invisible Hand

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Global and International Studies
• Course: GINS 1000
• Professor: Candace Sobers

Document Summary

Historiography is the history of doing history- look at bias, Industrial revolution rise of the west ( slant of people back then ) Eric hobsbawm- the long 19th century = 1789 ( french revolution)- 1914. Adoption of factory system, use of steam, machines being replacing hand tools. Rev. bring break natural human rhythm ( night) Machines still can"t do everything, now more humans are needed because scale of production is larger. Need transformation to get goods to market, moving raw materials, troops. Steamboats had tendency to explode, stuck going where the water way will go, waterways freeze. Changes society because we need workers to work. Railway labour- it is simply a question of alternatives: either you must have this labour or you can"t have the railway. - prime minister john. Working conditions - factory bad conditions, forced to work on factory times, wage labour, piece work (you get paid for how many pieces you make)