ACTIVITIES:

During the 19th century in England a process known as industrial revolution and it has

led to the growth of two systems of thought:

1) Economic science                      2) Socialism

a) Adam Smith

b) Maltus

c) Ricardo

d) John Stuart Mill           

 
 

 • (par. 2-3) Facts of Industrial Revolution.

1) Fast population growth

2) Decline of agricultural population

 

• (par. 4) Decrease in rural population.

causes:     1)  destruction of common-field

     2)   enclosures of common lands

     3)   larger farms

 

• (par. 5) Agricultural advance.

cause — more scientific approach:

e.g.  

More arable cultivations

Rotation of crops

Good built of farms

Agricultural societies

• (par. 6-7) Growth of industry.

causes;

1) mechanical inventions in textile industry

e.g.  

Spinning-jenny

Water frame

Crompton’s mule

Self-action mule

most important:

Steam engine

Engine for cotton mill

 

2) mechanical revolution in iron industry

e.g.  

Smelting by pit coal

Application of steam-engine to blast furnace

3) improved means of communication

e.g.  

Canal system

Roads

Railroads

 

results:   1) more commerce

     2) substitution of factory system for domestic system.

 

• (par. 8) 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:

• (par. 9) Social changes in manufacturing world: the employers made a big business but sometimes they can't
consequences:

 1) no relation between master and workers

2) Differences and conflicts between Trade-Unios

3) Social class conflicts

• (par. 10) Misery of working people often caused by:

1) conditions of workers

2) rise of prices

3) fluctuations of prices
 

Conclusion: Industrial Revolution brought both wealth and poverty, caused by an improvement of facilities and agriculturals technics and a spreading distance between social classes.