HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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One change was how Europeans thought of labor:the work done, and the workers who did it. The ways people worked were changing in big ways. This first happened in the Americas and later spread all over the world.
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We can see how work was changing by looking at the sugar industruy on the Caribbean islands and Brazil. Making sugar was a hot, noisy industry that required many workers. It had to stick to strict deadlines,
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Historians Kenneth Pomerantz and Steven Topik argue that the “scale, complexity and social organization of the sugar mills, “ made them the first modern factories. The sugar mills were a blueprint for other factory systems, they wrote.
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Once sugar cane was cut, it had to be processed quickly, or else it would rot. To do this, workers in the mills had to work around the clock. The mill was designed around one goal:to produce as much sugar as possible.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The new inventions, access to raw materials, trade routes and partners, social changes, and a stable government all paved the way for Britain to become an industry-driven country.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Industrial Revolution shifted from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Industrial Middle Class Those who benefited most from the Industrial Revolution were the entrepreneurs who set it in motion. The Industrial Revolution created this new middle class, or bourgeoisie, whose members came from a variety of backgrounds. Some were merchants who invested their growing profits in factories.