GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Global Workforce
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Rodgers reading: there were no sewers, clean water, streetlamps, etc in the early 19th century: Toronto has the most construction happening right now & population is increasing fast. Major depressions & recession across europe during the 1840s. It began in britain & scotland during the middle of the 18th century. This affected cities & new technologies & energy sources like coal. Food prices also dropped due to mass production & global trade. Market oriented society that allowed markets to regulate education, housing, goods, etc. Key concept 1: the industrial revolution transformed society, especially cities. Hall reading: berlin, glasgow, london, etc has the most poverty. People had very little money & could not spend it on housing. Cities produced weak men who could not enlist in war, unlike country side men. Before discovering germs, bacteria, and disease in the 1840s due to cholera, people assumed deaths were caused by city air.
