THE CHIEF FEATURES OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The title of this text is "The Chief Features of Industrial Revolution". The key words that introduce the text and help the reader to understand it are "Chief" and "Revolution". With this words the reader can immediately understand that the text is going to talk about how the Industrial Revolution develops and which were the causes of it.

This text is organized in 10 paragraphs, and each paragraph analyzes various aspects of the Industrial Revolution.

The first paragraph explains that Industrial Revolution brought greay hstorical changes .

In the second and in the third paragraph the writer evidences the substitution of the mediaeval regulations of distribution of wealth and explains the development of Economic Science and the four main books that were written at that time; these books had different aims even thought they all were about distribution of wealth.

The fourth paragraph talks about the increasing of population in general and the decline of the agricultural population.

The fifth and the sixth paragraph explain that there were a lot of changes in the agricultural field and in the breeding field: this as a consequence of the destruction of the common-field system of cultivation, and the development of enclosure. A lot of small farms were changed into large ones and the number of farmers was strongly reduced. This period was one of great agricultural advance and improving of breed of cattle.

The seventh paragraph underlines that at that time there were a lot of inventions concerning manufactures. That's to say: the spinning-jenny, the water-frame, Crompton's mule and the self-acting mule. All these mechanical discoveries, together with the invention of the steam-engine by J.Watt, brought to a revolution of textile industry. In this period, but before the introduction of the power-loom, spinner and weavers reached a great prosperity.

Meanwhile even the iron industry revolutionized and doubled its production.

The ninth paragraph evidences the importance of the improving of the means of communication. A lot of canals and roads were constructed. The first railroad was built. There was a new kind of commerce. Commerce increased extraordinarily.

In the last but one paragraph the writer explains that there was an increase of prices in rents.

In the following paragraph the reader can understand that the Industrial Revolution created new social classes. That's to say, on one side we had great capitalist employers which made enormous fortunes; on the other, we had working people who often suffered misery; as a consequence Trade-Unions began to rise.

All these paragraphs are linked together because they evidence the innovations and the new organization that the Industrial Revolution has brought in the economy and in the society of the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.

To conclude a lot of aspects are analyzed and the reader can understand that Industrial Revolution and free competition in general, may produce wealth without producing well-being.