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| • | The Industrial Revolution was the major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. It began in England with the introduction of steam power (fueled primarily by coal) and powered machinery (mainly in textile manufacturing). The development of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufacture of more production machines for manufacturing in other industries. The dating of the Industrial Revolution is not exact. T.S. Ashton held that it was roughly 1760-1830, in effect the reigns of George III, The Regency, and part of William IV. There was no cut-off point for it merged into the Second Industrial Revolution from about 1850, when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered ships, and railways, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the internal combustion engine and the development of electrical power generation. The effects spread throughout Western Europe and North America, eventually affecting the rest of the world. The impact of this change on society was enormous and is often compared to the Neolithic revolution, when mankind developed agriculture and gave up its nomadic lifestyle. The term industrial revolution was introduced by Friedrich Engels and Louis-Auguste Blanqui in the second half of the 19th century. . The development of the steam engine started the industrial revolution in Great Britain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened.]] Source: [wikipedia: industrial revolution] |
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| offers detailed descriptions on what it was like to work in a factory as a child. includes biographies of factory reformers, accounts from the workers themselves, legislation passed and statistics. | ||
| Cotton Times - Understanding the Industrial Revolution | ||
| an overview of the revolution in textiles, profiling workers and reformers of 18th century britain, related events in labor history, and describing modes of transportation and living. | ||
| Cotton Town | ||
| tells the story of the rapid social and economic changes that occurred as blackburn and darwen began to expand with the growth of the british textile industry. | ||
| Factory Workers in the British Industrial Revolution | ||
| papers on children, men, and women as factory workers as complete texts and abstracts by douglas galbi. | ||
| The Wilkinson Family, Ironmasters - The Beginning of an Industrial Empire | ||
| a series of illustrated historical essays about the family who played a major role in the history and economy of eighteenth century britain, france and america. | ||
| The Wolverhampton Gunlock Makers | ||
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