GGRA02H3 Lecture : lecture 4

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2 Nov 2010
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Urbanization - new centres of commerce and industry. Sugar trade - spatial interaction (goods and materials), change in character in places. Colonization, exploitation capital for industrial system. Changing nature of places - polluted, congested. the age of capital, the first industrial revolution. new sources of energy - steam power. global sourcing of raw materials and labour (inputs of energy) new modes of transportation (steam ships, steam railways) Money, economy, accumulation of great amounts of money. Social and environmental consequences of age of industrialism. The second industrial revolution - first half of 20th century. Mass production: fordism (assembly line, special tasks) and taylorism (carefully calculate how long it took for a worker to perform a particular task -- minimize it) Internal combustion engine: the era of oil. -- disruptions of wwi (imperialist countries - territoriality), communism, the great. Advanced capitalism: the age of globalization - second half of 20th century .

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