HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Exogamy, Betty Harris, Demographic Transition
Document Summary
The industrial revolution: women, family and urban life. Betty harris: drawer- crawled in narrow pits to get coal. Why focus on women and gender: women worked a lot of the low-wage jobs. Capitalism and industrialization: rapidly expanding population encourage profit-oriented business enterprises, more intensive food production, and a different outlook on relationship between laborer and owner of the land capital and production. Population growth: between 1700-1800 population increased from 105 million to 180 million, greatest growth is in germany and britain, between 1800-1900 it increased to 390 million, even more pronounced in the americas, factors: Increased life expectancy, green wealth (food, more food for livestock and people, healthier population, death rate of children declining, birth rate not necessarily increasing, political stabilization: people are forced to move into the city. Coal and colonies: england had geographic luck (compare to spain and china)- lots of mines close to the surface, fueled city-building.
