HIST 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Common Land, Technological Change, Cholera
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The industrial revolution (late 18th to early 19th century) Was never talked about like the french revolution during their time. Economic growth: take off to self-sustaining growth, economies grew, then take off. Technological change: technological advance was slower pre-industrial revolution, constantly changing technology. Distribution of labor force: most people before were involved in primary food production agriculture, people move to different sects of labor force, 1851 british census shows most people live in cities technological based manufacturing. Britain began investing in other countries to industrialize capital spread. De(cid:448)elopi(cid:374)g (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tries do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e free trade have to protect their own economy. Britain had a lot of engineers not all could get jobs in britain export of labor. France had medium sized family firms overall declining population. City of manchester: no high degree of regulation, becomes one of the great new cities of 19th century, a symbol of industry. Early harsh exploitation of workers: unions were illegal, little regulations in factories.
