LBravo - Homework 14/01/2019

 

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, which meant the substitution of competition for the mediaeval regulations and distribution of wealth, connected to a production on a large scale, 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) enclosures

3) 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

 

results:  

1) a neverseen 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) it generally ceased to work and live with its labourers, and became a distinct class

2) demoralization

3) class conflict

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