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•  (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