Activities

Complete the following notes. They will give you an outline of the information contained in the passage. The main points, relations of cause-effect, illustrations etc. are clearly indicated in the text by logical connectors. Look out for them. 

• (par. 1) The Industrial Revolution

led to growth of two systems of thought:

1) Economic science                      2) Socialism

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

• (par. 4) Decrease in rural population.

causes:     1)  destruction of the common – field system of cultivation

     2)   the enclosure of common and waste lands

     3)  the consolidation of small farms into large

• (par. 5) Agricultural advance.

cause — more scientific approach:

e.g.  

• (par. 6-7) Growth of industry.

causes;

1) mechanical inventions in textile industry

e.g.  

most important:

2) mechanical revolution in iron industry

e.g.  

3) improved means of communication

e.g.  

results:   1)  change from independence to dependence

     2) substitution of factory system for domestic system.

• (par. 8) Revolution in distribution of wealth:

rise in rents caused by

social changes in country life:

•(par.9)Social changes in manufacturing world:

The labourer felt all the burden of high prices and he had lost his common – rights consequences:

 1) the alienation between farmer and laborer

2) great capitalist employers made fortunes

3) class conflict.

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

Conclusion: the effects of Industrial revolution underline that free competition may produce wealth