SOCB44H3 Lecture Notes - Pork Belly, Industrial Revolution
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Lecture 4 october 1st: north american cities. Last week we talked about industrial revolution and the invention of new technologies and energies such as steam and water power , electricity, and other forms of power. It revolutionized the industry, agriculture, and the cities. Because new jobs were created with the rise of factories (thanks to industrial revolution), more workers were needed to work at these factories: thus population in the cities rose. There are 3 differences the industrial revolution brought: the revolution created the need of a new type of worker: This type of work required certain skills, although not the best, but were needed in pre-industrial society. In factories, the above skills were useless! Most of the time, factory work are fairly simple (compared to cottage crafts) and allow workers to work longer hours: some factories actually used children.
