Learning Paths » 5B Interacting
• (par. 1) The Industrial Revolution
Substitutes the competition for the medieval regulation which had previously controlled the production and distribution of wealth. Those facts
led to growth of two systems of thought:
1) Economic science 2) Socialism
a) Adam Smith |
b) Malthus |
c) Ricardo |
d) John Stuart Mill |
• (par. 2-3) Facts of Industrial Revolution.
1) growth of population (decennial increase from 3% to 18%) |
2) decline in the agriculture population (decrease from 35% to 28%) |
• (par. 4) Decrease in rural population.
causes: 1) destruction of the common field system of coltivation
2) the enclosure of common and waste lands
3) consolidation of small farm into large
• (par. 5) Agricultural advance.
cause — more scientific approach:
e.g.
The breed of cottle |
Rotation of crops |
Invention of the steam-plough |
agricultural societies |
• (par. 6-7) Growth of industry.
causes;
1) mechanical inventions in textile industry
e.g.
Spinning-jenny |
Water-frame |
Spinning mule |
Self-acting mule |
most important:
steam engine |
Power loom |
2) mechanical revolution in iron industry
e.g.
Smelting by pit-coal |
Steam engine to blast furnaces |
3) improved means of communication
e.g.
Water way |
Turn pike road |
Railroad |
results: 1) over production and depression
2) substitution of factory system for domestic system.
• (par. 8) Revolution in distribution of wealth:
rise in rents caused by
1)due to money invested to improvements |
2)rental of land |
3)consolidation of farms |
4) high price of corn |
social changes in country life:
• (par. 9) Social changes in manufacturing world: new class of great capitalist employers
consequences:
1) relation between masters and men disappeared
2) cash nexus was substituted for the human tie
3) class conflict.
• (par. 10) Misery of working people often caused by:
1)fall in wages |
2)sudden fluctuation of trade |
3)high price of bread before repeal of the corn-laws |
Conclusion:
wealth and well-being aren’t always related and the horrors happened in that period went on until the legislation and the combination