GEOG 4040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lewis Mumford, Textile Manufacturing
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Stage 1: manufacturing and trade, familial collaboration. Stage 2: adopted power machinery - steam power. Case study: textile manufacturing in manchester, manufacturing of wool, 1720"s, small scale > large scale production, lancashire: manufacturing of wool, manchester: distribution of wool. Authors perspective: ownership system to be blames, rural unemployed moved to cities, rural areas became more affluent. Class division: ability to pay for transportation, the rich believed that the poor shoud not have mobility to work, agreed to have railways but only in poor neighbourhoods.