Causes of the IR - Textiles
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Causes of the IR - Textiles
The Industrial Revolution
Homework
• Refer to ‘Glossary for Unit 1 – IR’• As a study tool for yourself, you are required to write definitions (in your own words) for all key terms, and key people, in the first COLUMN.
IR – a process
Cheaper prices + increased
supply
Surplus Income + increased demand
New businesses + new inventions
The Textile Industry
From this
To this
What was the Cottage Industry?
Cottage IndustryTown
Lynn’s wool farm
Daniel’s House
Matilda’s House
Josh’s House
Luka the Merchant
Factory System
Factory
Cedric’s House
Jonathan’s House
Ted’s House
Jad’s House
Factory System
How do you make textiles?
Step One
Step Two
John KayFlying Shuttle 1733
The Flying Shuttle
What problems will the industry have now?
James Hargreaves1765
The Spinning Jenny
Water Frame
Richard Arkwright1769
Water to Steam
Discuss with your neighbor what impact this will have on the LOCATION of textile factories (also called mills)?
The Power Loom
Young “Bobbin-Doffers”What type of jobs could children
perform?Why?
A revolution begins…• These machines revolutionized industry• 1790 - 10 times more yarn was being made
than in 1770. • By 1800, it was the main industry in UK• Cotton was imported from the US and India• Shipped into Liverpool• By rail to Manchester and other towns
Pair activity:Create a flow chart showing the links between the inventions and how they created a boom in the textile industry
One thing leads to another…
• Greater demand for yarn
Flying Shuttle 1733
Textile mills in the
Midlands 1800s
Game Time
Internet Activity:• Go to: • http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
launch_gms_cotton_millionaire.shtmlon “Who wants to be a cotton millionaire”
• Play the game and discover if you have what it takes to be a Manchester millionaire!
Textile FactoryWorkers in England
1813 2,400 looms 150, 000 workers
1833 85, 000 looms 200, 000 workers
1850 224, 000 looms >1 million workers
Pair Activity:In pairs, look at these statistics, and write a question about the relationships between loom and worker numbers, and years.Speculate / use your historical imagination to answer your own question.Then separate and work with another (split) pair to ask your question, and answer their question.
Statistics and Evidence
• Why do you think that historians are interested in numbers and statistics?
• In what ways can they use this information?
Year lbs.
1701 1,985,868
1710 715,008
1720 1,972,805
1730 1,545,472
1741 1,645,031
1751 2,976,610
1764 3,870,392
1775 4,764,589
1780 6,766,613
1790 31,447,605
1800 56,010,732
Year £
1701 23,253
1710 5,698
1720 16,200
1730 13,524
1741 20,709
1751 45,986
1764 200,354
1780 355,060
1787 1,101,457
1790 1,662,369
1800 5,406,501
(Raw) Cotton imported to Britain
Cotton Textiles (products) exported from Britain
Drop Drop
increase
Increase
What is the overall trend shown by the above statistical charts?
Speculate / use your historical imagination to guess why there may have been drops and increases in the above statistical charts…
The Factory System× Rigid schedule.× 12-14 hour day.× Dangerous
conditions.× Mind-numbing
monotony.
Think:Can you make connections to your
school life?
Camera Assembly / Production LineGermany 1965
Motherboard Assembly / Production LineChina Present
To do:In pairs, discuss and record advantages of this type of production.
Textile Factory England
To do: In pairs, make 2 observations based on this image.
Homework
• Refer to ‘Glossary for Unit 1 – IR’• As a study tool for yourself, you are required to write definitions (in your own words) for all key terms, and key people, in the first COLUMN.