Examples of Industrial Revolution in the following topics:
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- During the Industrial Revolution (roughly 1750 to 1850) changes in technology had a profound effect on social and economic conditions.
- Examples of the technological innovation of the Industrial Revolution include the invention of steam and coal engines.
- The period of time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians.
- Great Britain provided the legal and cultural foundations that enabled entrepreneurs to pioneer the Industrial Revolution.
- Analyze the shift from manual to machine based labor during the First and Second Industrial Revolutions
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- Sociologists Weber, Marx and Durkheim envisioned different impacts the Industrial Revolution would have on both the individual and society.
- Three early sociologists, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Emile Durkheim, envisioned different outcomes of the Industrial Revolution on both the individual and society and described these effects in their work.
- Max Weber was particularly concerned about the rationalization of society due to the Industrial Revolution and how this change would affect humanity's agency and happiness.
- Karl Marx took a different perspective on the Industrial Revolution.
- Compare the similarities and differences between Weber's Rationalization, Marx's Alienation and Durkheim's Solidarity In relation to the Industrial Revolution
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- In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution dramatically changed labor practices.
- Before the Industrial Revolution, most production took place in homes or in small workshops.
- After the Industrial Revolution, production increasingly took place in factories, many of which were situated together in industrial districts.
- Industrial labor is defined as labor in industry.
- Discuss the impact of the Industrial Revolution on workers and the shift from small scale to large scale workforces
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- With the introduction of mechanized textile production in New England during the Industrial Revolution, many women who previously earned wages by sewing or weaving in their homes took positions at textile mills, working outside of the home for the first time.
- With the introduction of mechanized textile production in New England during the Industrial Revolution, many women who previously earned wages by sewing or weaving in their homes took positions at textile mills, working outside of the home for the first time.
- The printing press became a key factor in the rapid spread of the Protestant Revolution and is thought to have enabled the development of national identities.
- The technologies of the Renaissance period, which introduced methods of mechanization, were the predecessors of the mass-production techniques that fueled the Industrial Revolution during the 18th and 19th centuries, which started in Great Britain and emanated outwards.
- These processes may be considered the phase of technological innovation following the Industrial Revolution, which some have labeled the Information Revolution.
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- Industrialization has contributed to the growth of the older age population due to the technological advances that have come with it.
- The United Kingdom began an Industrial Revolution in the mid-eighteenth century due to the availability of land, labor, and investment capital.
- Most Western countries industrialized by the nineteenth century but the Industrial Revolution is still occurring around the world.
- Industrialized countries are defined by measures of economic growth and security.
- Industrialization brings money into an economy.
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- Living conditions during the Industrial Revolution varied from the splendor of the homes of the wealthy to the squalor of the workers.
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- Three early sociologists, Weber, Marx, and Durkheim, perceived different impacts of the Industrial Revolution on the individual and society and described those impacts in their work.
- Max Weber was particularly concerned about the rationalization and bureaucratization of society stemming from the Industrial Revolution and how these two changes would affect humanity's agency and happiness. [9] As Weber understood society, particularly during the industrial revolution of the late 19th century in which he lived, society was being driven by the passage of rational ideas into culture which, in turn, transformed society into an increasingly bureaucratic entity.
- Karl Marx took a different perspective on the impact of the Industrial Revolution on society and the individual. [10] In order to understand Marx's perspective, however, it is necessary to understand how Marx perceived happiness.
- In a capitalist society (which was co-evolved with the Industrial Revolution), rather than owning the fruits of their labors, the proletariat or working class owns only their labor power, not the fruits of their labors (i.e., the results of production).
- Marx's proposed solution was for the proletariat to unite and through protests or revolution (or legislation in democratic nations) overthrow the bourgeoisie and institute a new form of government – communism.
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- Pre-industrial societies are societies that existed before the Industrial Revolution, which took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Discuss the different types of societies and economies that existed during the pre-Industrial age
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- Industrial sociology examines the effects of industrial organization on workers, and the conflicts that can result.
- An example of a labor union is the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO), whose constituent unions represent most American workers.
- An example of a craft union was the American Federation of Labor before it merged with the Congress of Industrial Organization.
- Originating in Europe, trade unions became popular in many countries during the Industrial Revolution, when the lack of skill necessary to perform most jobs shifted employment bargaining power almost completely to the employers' side, causing many workers to be mistreated and underpaid.
- Industrial unionism is a labor union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union—regardless of skill or trade—thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in bargaining and in strike situations.
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- The Four Social Revolutions refer to the identification of social change through modes of subsistence.
- Analyze the various social revolutions in terms of how each contributes to the development of the next stage, for example, moving from horticulturist to agrarian