An Age of Revolutions

 

Pag 183 es 4

1 technologies

2 inventions

3 sources of ways

4 steam engine

5 manufacture

6 water power

7 enclosure

8 improvements

 

Industrial society

 

Pag 185 es 2

1 shifting of population

2 new factories were built near the coal fields

3 Small towns, the socalled “mushroom towns”

4 Women and Children were increasingly employed

5 long working hours

6 terrible living conditions

7 elementary public services

8 air and water were polluted by smoke and filth

9 the houses were overcrowd

10 the life expectacy of the poor inhabitants was well below twenty years

 

es 4

1 The percetage of child working during the Industrial Revolution was 15% of the total labopur force.

2 They were chosen by owners because they were cheap, malleable and fast-learning work forces.

3 No, it was not a new practice indeed they were already employed as farmers or artisans.

 

Pag 191

The long-term impact of the Industrial Revolution

 

1 LOOK at the pictures and fill in the table with the benefits and drawbacks brought about by industrialisation and technological advances.

Benefits	Drawbacks
- Longer life - Development of well-being and welfare - technological facilities (Computer, Phone,..)	- extreme growth of population - “ urbanisation - Climate change