HIST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wind Direction, Typhoid Fever, Social Polarization
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Industrial revolution (1700s in britain: novels of charles dickens, william blake"s "dark satanic mills" (1808) Hope that industrialization would be different in north america. Canada"s urban population jumped from 1. 1 million to 4. 3 million from 1880 to 1920. The symbol of the age: textile mills. Cheap coal made steam powered city factories feasible: made possible to industrialize places away from water. The symbol of the age: steel mills (hamilton, sydney, ssm) The symbol of the age: henry ford"s auto assembly plant (detroit, windsor, oakville, oshawa) Pace of work: when and how it was performed. Frederick winslow taylor sought to centralize control. Timed efficient workers to create a standard o. Broke down skilled jobs into parts o. Each part could be done by someone with minimal skill: de-skilling. Labour saving machines made work dull and repetitive: assembly line: sub-division of labour, interchangeable parts, continuous movement.
