HIS241H1 Lecture : HIS241 - September 29.docx
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Economic factors help determine the extent of technological advances. Malthus is important, history wasn"t limitless social improvement. Iron law of population (it grows faster than food is produced: malthus didn"t think of agricultural changes. Merriman states that there could be no increase without an agricultural revolution. Debate over impact of industrialization on worker"s living standards has gone back and forth forever: n. r. f. Changes in interpretation allow for a better concept of the changes brought about by industrialization: before looked only at booms in industrialization. Was a gradual change not a peak of change. Small scale until mid-19th century and look past overestimation. Inventions weren"t the only thing that forged the industrial revolution: was also a population change and a structural transformation, was a process not a boom. Key feature of industrialization = fundamental redeployment of resources away from agriculture. 1840, 47% in industry, 29% in agriculture in britain.
