GEOG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Friedrich Engels, Industrial Revolution, Iron Age
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Friedrich engels friends with karl marx wrote about the industrial revolution in manchester his main focus was the living situation of the working class. The streets in manchester were built in a way to allow the upper classes to travel over the bad parts, in this way the working classes living situation was ignored. The railroad allowed much greater separation between industrial sites and consumers sites, they moved coal and goods. Eiffel tower is connected to the railroad , the steel-ness of the eiffel tower came to resignant with the steel era. Really was a qualitative transform of society (steel and iron age) The industrial growth between 1850 , (coal and iron) plus the textile. brought on the birth. Answer to a tophat question - the development of the social system was reflected in the building design ,urban planning and workplace. Answer to tophat question- two phases of the industrial revolution (cotton and steel)