WDW152H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ntr Plc, Consumerism, Public Health
12 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Mechanization
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Factories
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New transportation
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Pollution
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Urban centres
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New jobs / labour markets
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New ideas about labour
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New forms of warfare
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Poor working / living conditions
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Unions
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Protection of the environment
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About changing the way goods were made
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Shifted from hand-crafted goods to manufactured goods
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Goods became cheaper
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Changes to social / political / economic orders
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Changes in family relationships
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Urbanization
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Social dislocation
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Average standard of living improved
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Population increased
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Improvements in transportation (national toll roads, canal
systems, steamboat, railroad)
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Improved communication (telegraph, printing)
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Rising literacy rates
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Beginning of consumerism --> consuming / buying more
things
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Creation of new "middle class" of industrialists who owned
factories
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Progress = more stuff
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Factories
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Pollution
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Poor working conditions
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Child labour
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Poor living conditions in crowded cities
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Negative effects
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Labour laws
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Safety laws
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Public health laws
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Protection of children
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Protection of environment
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New types of laws
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Situation in which an innovation inadvertently introduces
problems that the society does not have the capacity or
political will to solve
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Progress Trap
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Industrial Revolution (1760-1850)
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Lecture 2.6: Technology and Global
Transformation: The Industrial Revolution
March 8, 2017
10:00 AM
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