HIST 1493 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Interchangeable Parts, Scientific Management, Industrial Revolution
14 Sep 2016
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Industrialism –
how did it happen?
Railroads – national market for transporting goods , national to other countries etc.
Huge industrial industry involves other aspects , steel iron , coal , timber
Expansion (rail road act , government policy )
Manufacturing goods – tariffs- protective taxation on imported goods so domestic goods become more
favorable in the economy
Technology – refrigerated rail cars (meat), new steel processes, related to tech , energy , new forms of
energy and more ways to use old energy , steam power.
Organizations- that bring together a lot of capital
Taylorism – interchangeable parts to have interchangeable ppl , more efficiently produce by breaking up
complicated steps to individual parts so unskilled people are able to work and complete task.
Expansions or market relations – some factories become industrially produced goods , replace smaller
companies
Managerial class – overseeing and organizing the processes of assembly lines
Rising Inequality
Require less workers , replaceable people ,large un regulated economic environment
Anything people don’t like , they an e replaed
• Wage cuts
• Demand longer hours
• Poor working conditions
Workers reacting against conditions
• Striking, workers walking off of job , strikes spread from source ,
• Forming unions, without workers , everyone walking off the job , dramatic , you have to deal
with them (all stand up and demand better conditions than they have to take matters seriously)
Strikes
State militias called , taken the employers side/capitals , protecting property right of the companies
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Document Summary
Railroads national market for transporting goods , national to other countries etc. Huge industrial industry involves other aspects , steel iron , coal , timber. Expansion (rail road act , government policy ) Manufacturing goods tariffs- protective taxation on imported goods so domestic goods become more favorable in the economy. Technology refrigerated rail cars (meat), new steel processes, related to tech , energy , new forms of energy and more ways to use old energy , steam power. Organizations- that bring together a lot of capital. Taylorism interchangeable parts to have interchangeable ppl , more efficiently produce by breaking up complicated steps to individual parts so unskilled people are able to work and complete task. Expansions or market relations some factories become industrially produced goods , replace smaller companies. Managerial class overseeing and organizing the processes of assembly lines. Require less workers , replaceable people ,large un regulated economic environment.
