SteinbergEnglish 206 Industrial Revolution ca 1760 1840 Images

Steinberg—English 206 Industrial Revolution (ca. 1760 -1840)

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Background �Transition to new manufacturing processes �Movement from hand production to machines �Improved efficiency of water power �Increasing use of steam power �New chemical manufacturing and iron production processes �Began in Great Britain, spread to Western Europe and North America

Impact �Created middle class of professional, such as lawyers and doctors �Unprecedented sustained growth in average income �Falling prices for clothing and household articles �Organization of trade unions

Child Labor �Labor of choice for manufacturing �Many abuses, especially in coal mines and textile factories

Luddites �Name for those (often unemployed) who turned their animosity towards machines, destroying factories and machinery

Second Industrial Revolution (184070) �Increased adoption of steam transport �Large-scale manufacture of machine tools �Increasing use of machinery in steam- powered factories

Artistic Hosility �Reaction against new industrialization �Associated with the Romantic movement �Stressed importance of nature in art and language �William Blake (pictured), William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats (pictured), Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley