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 caused the substitution of competition for the mediaeval regulation which had previously controlled the production and distribution of wealth. On this account it is not only one of the most important facts of English history but it

  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)  enclosure, on large scale, of common and waste lands

     3)  expansion 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) big increase in commerce

     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:

consequences: 1) high prices

   2)  lost of commonrights

   3)  class conflict.

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

Conclusion:

Industrial revolution à new class of great capitalist employers was born;

Workmen à disastrous conditions of labour.