INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS

1. Industrialization as an intesification of existing forms of production. 2. The agricultural revolution and increasing urban populations. 3. Womes work in the Industrial Revolution. 4. The rise of class consciousness. 5. Industrial discipline and the rise of the foreman.

INDUSTRIALIZATION AS AN INTENSIFICATION OF EXISTING FORMS OF PRODUCTION

Industrial Revolution first coming to England: Location of resources (coal), the sea is near, canals/roads, banking system, very large proletariat, agricultural rev. Intesification of forms of production that were already there. Increase of Industrial production in the countryside. 75,000 embroiderers women. Textil industry.

THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION AND INCREASING URBAN POPULATIONS

Increasing of food produced: increase urban population + capital invested in industry. Specializing crop: milk, meat. Conurbation: cities that grow up so much to merge together.

WOMES WORK IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Things that dont change: head of economy family: they are still working in the countryside (Textile ind.). Prostitution increases with urban growth. Diseases: syphilis and veneral disease.

THE RISE OF CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS

Middle class has a stronger class indentity. The sense of being workers as a class apart. Language reveal people class. Proletarian is somebody dependent on their own labor. Craftsmen are organizated and are educated. They begin seeing themselves as a class apart.

INDUSTRIAL DISCIPLINE AND THE RISE OF THE FOREMAN

Domestic industry: you work on your own. Factory production: discipline. Industrial discipline: bell signal, salary reduction, rules, regulations. Foreman. You dont know the boss. Massive kind of movements of strikes.