Activity
It led to the growth of two systems of thought:
1) Economic science 2) Socialism
a)Adam Smith b)Malthus
c)Ricardo d) John Stuart Mill
Facts of Industrial Revolution.
a)greater rapidity which marks the growth of population
b)decline in the agricultural population
Decrease in rural population.
Causes:
1) the destruction of the common-fields system of cultivation
2) The enclosure of common and waste lands
3) The consolidation of small farms into large
Agricultural advance. Cause - more scientific approach:
1) The breed of cattle was improved
2) Rotation of crops was generally introduced
3) The steam-plogh was invented
4) Agricultural societies
Growth of industry. Causes. Mechanical inventions in textile industry
1) The spinning-jenny (1770)
2) The water-frame (1769)
3) Crompton's mule (1779)
4) The self-acting mule (1792) used in the 1825
most important:
1) Steam engine
2) The power-loom
mechanical revolution in iron industry:
1) Smelting by pit-coal (1740-1750)
2) Steam-engine to blast furnaces (1788)
improved means of communication:
1) Canal system
2) Roads
3) Railroads
results:
1) Regular recurrence of periods of over-production and of depression
2) Substitution of factory system for domestic system
Revolution in distribution of wealth. Rise in rents caused by:
1) Money invested in improvements
2) Enclosure system
3) Consolidation of farms
4) High price of corn
social changes in country life. Social changes in manufacturing world:
consequences:
1) -
2) -
3) Class conflict
Misery of working people often caused by:
1) The condition of labour under the factory system
2) The rise of prices
3) Fluctuations of trade.

Liprandi Giovanni 5b.