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The Industrial Revolution
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Britain Takes the Lead Great Britain’s advantages:
• Plentiful iron and coal• A navigable river system • A strong commercial
infrastructure that provided merchants with capital to invest in new enterprises
• Colonies that supplied raw materials and bought finished goods
• A government that encouraged improvements in transportation and used its navy to protect British trade
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The Importance of Textiles
John Kay invented the flying shuttle
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The Domestic or “Putting Out” System
• The textile industry was the most important in England
• Most of the work was done in the home
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The Spinning Jenny
Hargreaves’s machine
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The Water Frame
Powering the spinning jenny:• Horses• The water wheel
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Cotton Imported to Britain Between 1701 and 1800
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
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Cotton Goods Exported by Britain 1701 to 1800
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
Now poor Brits could wear cotton rather than itchy and scratchy wool year-round
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The Coming of the Railroads:The Steam Engine
• Thomas Newcomen • The steam engine
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James Watt’s Steam Engine
• Condenser– Increased
efficiency
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Stephenson’s Rocket
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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway
• The first widely-used steam train was the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.
• The L&M incited a boom in railway building for the next 20 years.
• By 1854, every moderately-sized town in England was connected by rail.
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The Growth of the Railroads
Opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Newbiggin Bridge
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The Telegraph
Samuel F.B. Morse
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British Dominance
Rail lines in England
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Steam-Powered Water Transport
In 1807, Robert Fulton attached a steam engine to a ship called the “Clermont.” The steam engine propelled the ship by
making its paddle wheel turn.
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Steel
Henry Bessemer
The Bessemer converter
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The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace
The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was mounted to symbolize Great Britain’s economic,
industrial, and military superiority.
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Labor Conditions
Laborers often worked in dangerous and hazardous
conditions
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Women: The Labor Behind the Industry
19th-century women at work
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Child Labor: Unlimited Hours
Factory children attend a Sunday school
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Child Labor: Dangers
“Scavengers” and “piecers”
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Child Labor: Punishment
• Malnourishment• Beatings• Runaways sent to prison
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Child Labor: Movements to Regulate
• Factory owners argued that child labor was good for the economy and helped build children's characters
• Factory Act of 1833: limited child labor and the number of hours children could work in textile mills
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Factory Act of 1833• Limited workday for children ages 9-13
to 8 hrs/day• Ages 14-18 to 12 hours• Prohibited hiring children under 9• Children were to go to elementary
schools that factory owners were required to establish
• Employment of children declined rapidly• Destroyed pattern of families working
together.
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Trade Unions
Agricultural laborers who had formed a trade union in the village of Tolpuddle were arrested on false charges and sent to the British colony of Australia.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs
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Labor Unions
• Sir Francis Burdett
• The 1871 Trade Union Act
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The Chartists
• Political reformers• Chartists wanted the government to adopt a “People’s Charter”• Adopted by national convention of labor organizations in 1838• Influenced the struggle for universal voting rights
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The Luddites
“General Ned Ludd” and the “Army of Redressers”
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The “Peterloo Massacre”
1819
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The New Industrial Class Structure
The New Working ClassThe New Middle Class
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Lower and Middle Class Housing
Tenements
Middle Class Housing
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Travel
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Social Mobility
This illustration of a “typical apartment”
appeared in a Parisian newspaper
in 1845
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New Economic Theories
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Adam Smith1723–1790
Adam Smith laid the intellectual framework for the concept of the free market
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Thomas Malthus 1766–1834
In An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), Malthus predicted that the food supply would not meet the needs of the growing population.
1. Population growth willoutpace the food supply.
2. War, disease, or faminecould control population.
3. The poor should have fewer children.
4. Food supply will then keep up with population.
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David Ricardo 1772–1823
The “Iron Law of Wages”
When wages are high,workers have morechildren.
More children create alarge labor surplus thatdepresses wages.
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Jeremy Bentham 1748–1832
Utilitarianism: “The greatest good for the most people” or “The greatest good over the least pain” is the goal of society
There is a role to play for government intervention to provide some social safety net.
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British Industrialization
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France
• Couldn’t keep up with British industrialization
• French Revolution and resulting political chaos hindered economic development
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French Industrialization after 1848
• Government investment• Public spending • Telegraph
A. Braun, Rue de Rivoli, 1855 or after
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Germany
• The Zollverein
• Tariffs
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ùNortheast France.
ùBelgium.
ùThe Netherlands.
ùVarious German states (East and West).
ùNorthern Italy
By 1850: Zones of Industrialization
on the European Continent
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Electricity: Edison
Thomas Edison
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Electricity: Tesla
In the 1880s, electrical engineer Nicholas Tesla perfected the
principles of alternating current. The electric coil, or the Tesla coil, keeps the current consistent in the
power lines.