HST 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Seed Drill, Putting-Out System, Industrial Revolution
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Almost all people are growing food out of need: for the industrial revolution to work (and to get more people into, britain: agricultural revolution the city), less people must grow more food. ***agricultural revolution: 18th century britain: crop rotation: allowing crops to rest to become more productive. Negative effect: no communal property rights less sharing on each others land. The increase of private rights takes away collective rights. Common sense inventions: people make things that help their lives increase in tinkering: jethro tull created the seed drill (1701) makes uniformly spaced holes and drops seeds in them, and covers them with dirt. Creates a higher yield: steam inventions really catapult the revolution - steam plowing, No longer subsistence farming; farmers and land owners start making threshing money off agriculture. Urbanization: 1700: 80% of the population is rural, 1800: 40% of the population is rural.
