HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Steam Engine, Working Animal, Cotton Gin
Document Summary
Industrialization and the french revolution work together to bring about the new conditions and new social structures of modern europe. It"s not obvious to people during the actual revolution that there was a revolution the term was coined 200 years later. Not the same kind of phenomenon all through europe. Huge changes in how work was done and how things were transported. Growth in industrial production and in the amount of manufactured goods produced. Growth in amount of things produced in some form of manufacture. Fall in percentage of people employed in agriculture. What is being traded and what is being exported leading sector of industrialisation is coton textiles. In 1750, coton textiles were only 1% of british export. By first decade of 19th century, coton textiles were 40% of british exports. The industrialization allowed for a break from the malthusian trap. Analysis of how much a person can produce and how much they make.
