MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Great Exhibition, Luddite, Precognition
3 Jun 2020
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Britain"s bottleneck to progress in roughly 200 years. Workers" wages go up; improved living conditions, increase in size of household, more industrial growth, steady increase in population, steady march towards opulence. I) paeans to the era of industry a) factory system and productivity i) cause for adam smith"s optimism (1) e. g. Rapid growth of britain"s textile industry (2) technological innovations in spinning and weaving (a) raw cotton milled: 4 million pounds in 1770 to 270 million pounds in. 1834 (a) edmund cartwright"s power loom in 1785 (b) samuel crompton"s steam mule in 1790. Increased time to weave cotton, using this is 15x faster. Textiles accounted for 40% of britain"s total exports; 1830. Britain"s textile industry employed about half a million workers (3) symbolism of the crystal palace exhibition of 1851 newest gadgets and innovations. The crystal palace exhibition was made mostly of glass.
