HIST 201 Lecture Notes - Seed Drill
Document Summary
The industrial revolution and the well-being of workers. The agricultural revolution: agricultural innovations, three- and four-field rotations of farm crops. More land under cultivation means more food to eat, and the reason they were able to do this was because there were so many new foods. Crops that put nitrogen back into the earth/air: potatoes, beans, clover, these crops allowed for four field rotations, mechanical innovations. Seed drill a planting machine: huge improvements in yields, but farmers didn"t want to use them, there is a force known as peasant conservatism. Land owner does not have control over all his workers, so he works with the government to consolidate his land into bigger units, and having a few employees is called enclosures: enclosure, regional variation, effects, greater productivity. There is more food for everyone so the government is able to survive: small landowners pushed out.
