LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Industrial Revolution, Piece Work, Scientific Management
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2nd revolution, since there"s another wave of changes. Assembly lines are breaking things down much more than they did during the 1st revolution (broken down to very small, distinct tasks) Larger corporations (scale that is now possible is greater than the 1st) Corporate capitalism (big enough corp. that they"ve become household names ex. Revolution takes off in the beginning of the 1900"s. Resources (timber industry, pulp and paper, mining) Canada has these resources in large scale. Expansion in places like edmonton, saskatchewan (population grows by. Wilfrid laurier liberal, took power the same time the economy turned around. Usher in a long period of liberal dominance (most of the 20th century) 110 years. Manufacturing canada is still not at the forefront of the world economy. Doesn"t have the sophistication to be as powerful manufacturers of other countries. Branch plant economy (u. s companies coming into canada to manufacture) Set up shop here in canada (in auto, steel, etc)