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So how'd the whole industrial revolution thing go down?
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All I know is that at one point there wasn't industry, and now there is. >_>
Durr some man invented the machine, and the machines stole the jobs of the prolet
There's always been industry. The industrial revolution was just that: a revolution in industry.
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It basically began with the creation of textile machines in the 18th century which prompted the creation of the first factories. This promoted enclosure which forced peasants off the land and into the cities where they worked in the ever-increasing factories. More discoveries, especially steam power, spread industry throughout the UK and eventually Europe, North America and the rest of the world. Railroad and steam-powered ship travel were fairly important in this.
That's the basics as I recall off the top of my head.
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Forced peasants off the land? Er?
It was a result of the large scale labour movement from the rural areas to the cities as a result of the agricucultural revolution .
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Industry had always existed, but the industrial revolution was the start of industrial capitalist society or ‘Fordism’
Well the industrial revolution started in Britain, although the French revolution played significant part in reinforcing bourgeois ideas which aided the development and the spread of the industrial revolution such as liberalism and free enterprise. The industrial revolution really kicked off due to the cotton industry, capitalist need a market in which they were sure they would get a big profit out of, thus cotton was chosen. The American south was a huge exporter of cotton to Britain, in any case the American south was almost like a dominion to Britain, and so the victory of the union over the Confederate States of America was essentially an annexation and unification of the USA.
I am unable to provide statistical information to tell you how much wealth was made out of cotton due to industrialization.
Also due to the centralization of the productive forces due to the industrial revolution railways and steam powered trains received heavy investment to supply the world of goods and to attain the raw materials this lead to the growth in the investment in to the coal mining industry which was needed to power the trains.
The significance of the French revolution was that it dismantled many obstacles which was in the way of capitalist development, for example, land owned by the religious institutions were often productive resources which could be used by the bourgeois to increase their wealth.
Also during this period there was an increased emphasis in science which was due to the bourgeoisie challenging the current status quo of superstition etc etc. For example there was an increase in the amount of investment especially in the chemical industrial, and a vast increase in the amount of students in Prussia studying on a chemical course.
Sorry for being brief and if I go off on a tangent.
Marx wrote about this in Das Kapital, Chapter 14 (and then goes on into chapter 15 about it too) which was a pleasant read...at least for me. I think you'd like it too, it's precisely on the industrial revolution more or less.
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