HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Capital (money) was becoming more concentrated. Certain people and companies were becoming richer, and able to create large businesses
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Finally, trade connections were growing stronger through transportation innovations such as canals and turnpikes (like early highways), and later, steamships.
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Historians Kenneth Pomerantz and Steven Topik make the argument that “the scale, complexity, and social organization of the sugar mills, “ made them the first modern factories and therefore, a blueprint for other factory systems. (227)
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Kenneth Pomerantz and Steven Topik. In sugar production, the workers were mostly slaves. They were seen as interchangeable parts within the process, like parts in a machine.
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Cities grew because industrial factories required large workforces and workers and their families needed places to live near their jobs. Factories and cities attracted millions of immigrants looking for work and a better life in the United States.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Technological changes, such as the use of iron and steel, new energy sources such as coal and steam, and the factory system, led to a division of labor and specialization, which increased efficiency.
Detailed explanation-3: -Inventions Spur Industrialization Britain’s textile industry clothed the world in wool, linen, and cotton. This industry was the first to be transformed.
Detailed explanation-4: -The textile industry was the first to use modern production methods, and textiles became the dominant industry in terms of employment, value of output, and capital invested.