WDW101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 07: Factory Acts, Job Security, Industrial Revolution
15 Jun 2013
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Chapter seven: the impact of urban and industrial growth. On the eve of the industrial revolution, farming was a stable occupation, where the whole family had a purpose, and was a very family oriented lifestyle. Industrialization changed everything with the introduction of farming machines, which allowed them to increase productivity dramatically. This allowed them to cut 10 acres a day, 40 times as much or producing bushels of wheat in one-hundredth of the time. Dairy and fruit farming became agribusiness, large-scale farms became common and rail and steamship service with cold storage, and lower freight allowed for greater exports. Mechanization also reduced the number of jobs family members had to take part in, so older children typically went away to find work in cities. Women were no longer needed to help out with producing cheese and butter or canning fruits as this now occurred in factories.
