Industrialisation

Q.7 Should historians dwell more on the negative social consequences of the Industrial Revolution or its positive economic benefits? Historians should dwell more on the negative social consequences of the Industrial Revolution rather than its positive economic benefits. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Industrial Revolution is: “The rapid development of industry in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery. It was characterized by the use of…

in the 1960s could be due to less advanced technology which could have led to greater variation/ uncertainty in results. This increase in C02 levels between the decades could be linked to a couple of factors. Firstly the introduction of mass industrialisation to previously underdeveloped countries. For example the ‘new’ industrial superpowers of India and China have contributed massively to the recent increases in emissions as both of these nations have vast industries that have only recently…

contracted testicular cancer. The practice was not abolished until 1875, nearly 50 years after Blake’s death ( Blake and Lincoln 6 ). Not only are the sweeps innocent victims of the cruellest exploitation, but they are associated with the smoke of industrialisation. The things that the children had to do during this time was cruel because many things were taken away from them. Also being away from their families because their parents thought they were going to be living a better life. During…

Brazil’s industrialisation and development has been constrained by the lack of technology and skilled human capital. Ban considers Brazil 's new development policies to be similar to the 'economically liberal policy goals and instruments associated with the [Washington] consensus and policy goals and instruments that can be traced to the developmentalist tradition ' (Ban, 2013: 299). And that neo-developmentalist follow a tradition 'unlike the protectionism and export pessimism of old…

Ibsen, A Doll’s House from p. 9 (‘Nora [gently]. Poor Christine, you are a widow.) to ‘Nora...It was like being a man.’ This extract of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is possibly the most important extract of Act 1. Through this section the audience is not only introduced to Mrs Christine Linde and Nora’s first discourse with a lady of her class, but the idea of Nora’s growing desire to rebel. During this conversation Ibsen displays the differing histories and the resulting personalities and…

Introduction The two men that I will be comparing today are Louis Riel and John A. Macdonald. Both of these men have contributed many things that have shaped our country that we see today, and are arguably two of the most important figures in Canada's history. Louis Riel was a Métis man who was born on October 22, 1844, on the Red River Settlement in Saint-Boniface. Riel was fluent in both English and French. During his lifetime, Riel achieved many great successes and inspired many people.…

and social struggles which Germany would experience. As the Treaty was signed and made up to prevent Germany from ever rebuilding and developing a nation that could amass enough power to engage in war. These terms resulted in restrictions on industrialisation, military power and social reform which led to little development in the country. This lack of development led to a failing economy and later vast unemployment as there were too few jobs for young German…

in transportation, urbanization, the rise of manufacturing and the scientific revolution during the first half of the century. Regarding the second half, the nation experienced the Reconstruction as well as a wave of inventions, migration and industrialisation. In accordance with these changes, the legal position of…

DURKHEIM’S VIEW ON WORK 1. Introduction. An advocate for social solidarity and communal living is the kind of sociologist Emile Durkheim was. For instance, with a concept like suicide, he was more concerned with the “individual’s integration into a community’’ rather than the mere reference to the mental state of the individual (Watson, 2003: 280). Durkheim was a great sociologist who wrote influential works, one of which was called The Division of Labour in Society. He wrote a book on this in…

Prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre once wrote that the tendency to reduce space ‘to parcels, to images, to facades that are made to be seen and to be seen from’, is a tendency that degrades the very notion of it. Architecture inhabits space, the concept of which, albeit difficult to grasp is made possible through the interpretations of those who populate it. It is even possible to say that there are as many places as people in a space. This concept is central to the discourse of…