History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Second Industrial Revolution, Infant Mortality
10 Jan 2019
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Birth rates and infant mortality rates were dropping due to more widespread knowledge of methods of birth control (not just upper class) Helps to free women from the cycle of child rearing. Focuses more on steel, electricity, chemicals, petroleum, etc (refinement of earlier ideas) Germany particularly benefitted they missed the first industrial revolution (this is their first) 1: unifies in the midst of the new revolution (1871) Germany is competing with the u. s. (remarkable because they started their revolution whilst us had already had their first revolution) Changes in germany happened extremely quickly - led to germans feeling threatened by the new changes and so they lashed out at minorities as a scapegoat. Common when country is facing turmoil (often economic) Jewish population is the focus of this attack. Real wages increased at least 50% across europe. Tools - the ultimate need for skilled workers.
