Napoleonic Wars/French revolution
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Week-7-Industrialization.pptxIndustrial Revolution and Romanticism
Week 7
Modern Age
Revolutions - Process of Change
Middle Ages —> Modernity
Role of the Individual in Society
Social Contract
Background to the Age of Revolutions
Renaissance and Reformation
Scientific Revolution
English Civil War
Enlightenment
Eighteenth Century
The process of reasoning and rationalizing the universe led to a series of significant and sudden changes.
Why does the need for change occur in society?
Toward an Industrial Society
Industrialization was one of the final steps in ushering tin change from medieval to modern society.
Great Britain led the charge for the Industrial Revolution.
Society becomes transformed.
Britain’s Advantage
Commercial Vigor
Transportation
Raw Materials
Labor
Capital
Entrepreneurship
Great Britain
Industrialism started in Great Britain in 18th century.
By the turn of the century Britain had successful factories all over the world.
Textiles, ironmaking, shipbuilding, china production.
Flying Shuttle
1733- John Kay invented the “fly shuttle” allowed one person to operate a loom.
Spinning Jenny
1765- James Hargreaves created the “spinning jenny”, which spun 16 spindles of thread at a time.
Water Power
1769 – Richard Arkwright applied waterpower to the spinning process.
Railways
The most significant development during this time was railway building.
Increased migration and the production of capital goods.
In effect, it brought industrialization at more rapid rate.
Hallmarks of the Railroads
1763 – James Watt improved the Newcomen engine and created the steam engine.
Financial banking of Matthew Boulton, they made a fortune.
1820 – Georg Stephenson created the “Rocket” land rail traveling 16 miles per hour.
The Labor Force
Factory workers varied…at first most enjoyed a decent wage and comfortable living style.
Few exceptions, such as women and children who were numbered the “laboring poor”
Working Class
Proletariat meant the workers of the means of production.
Workers contribute their labor for a wage…no longer own the means to production.
The emergence of factories
Competition
Factories forces artisans and craftsman to compete for sales.
Confection - less skill, uniform products.
Division of labor increased in the workshop, but devalued the product
Political Action
During the 1830s, the working class began to take action against the oppression.
Chartism - London Working Men’s Association.
Wm. Lovett demanded reform from parliament….but ultimately lost.
Luddism
Ned Ludd - legendary hero of the Working Man
Origin of British Labor Unions
Fought for rights against the Factory Owners.
Family Ideals
The Industrial Revolution also affected the development of families across Europe.
The Cult of True-Womanhood and Domesticity
The Separate Spheres
Romanticism
Coping with Change = Transformative Property
William Wordsworth
The Prelude 1805
Lyrical Ballads
“While with an eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things”
“The best laid schemes of mice and men do often go awry and leave us not but grief and pain for promised joy”
Clearly the Age of Revolutions ignited change but did the revolutionaries take it too far?
Next Week
Be able to show and account for how and why the revolutionary movements of 1848 failed.
Specifically connect it to the disappoint felt at the end of the revolutionary movements as seen in Flaubert’s writing.
