GINS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eric Hobsbawm, Unfree Labour, Global Exchange
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Intro: historiography the history of doing history (subjects, methods, perspectives, etc) Meta-analysis (self reflexive: the long 19th century eric hobsbawm. 1789-1914 (french revolution to world war 1: modernity and global history. Why britain: intra-european competition, state-merchant alliances, centre of global exchange network (asia, africa, americas) Iron & coal deposits: raw materials, unfree labour, established maritime trade networks, heavily commercialized, growing population, space for technological innovation. Industrial revolution (1750-1850: misnomer? (go back to where you began, begins in england c 1750. Shift away from: agrarianism, household economy, limited energy sources (slaves: can work until lights go out, sun sets) and human labour. Towards: urbanization, factories, wage labour, mechanization and intensive energy sources. Power, work, life: agriculture biological old regime. Seed drills: rise of fossil fuels coal trumps wood = non-renewable. Working conditions: artisanal/family model factory, wage labour, the satanic mills , women& child labour (ex: girl putter in coal mine, pulling coal through mines, changing ideas of time.