Second Industrial Revolution

increasing proportion of a national population lives in towns and cities (the ratio is an indicator to compute the level of urbanisation). In other words, more people migrate from rural to urban areas. The First World, by definition, is the capitalist industrial market economies involving counties like United States, France and the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First World was so-called ‘developed countries’ as a synonym. The Third World contains both economic and…

The Industrial Revolution, a phenomenon that made America the world power it is today. Luminaries like Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and J. P Morgan, men who built the foundations of the industrial age; used cutthroat tactics, double-crossed their allies, and pushed the blue-collar workers to the brink. These men created an empire that overworked the working class, while justifying it by saying, laissez-faire, or “let it be,” causing the government to back down, because it would cause for an…

Timekeeping was an important variable to help progress our economic system and strengthen capitalist ideals. David Landes’ Revolution in Time and E.P. Thompson’s Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism were both written with obstacles of time-work discipline in mind. In Landes’ work, he focuses on the historical motives and origins of clock creation to support his claims and explains that “The clock did not create an interest in time measurement; the interest in time measurement led to…

Sustainability As a result of the Industrial Revolution during the 18th century, industrial production in-creased drastically which led to the changing of three important factors. The first factor that got affected is the increase of demand on resources. Europe was one of the strongest military forces in the world back then and they were the most dominant. Due to the lack of raw material, they invaded and conquered some parts of the world for their crucial need of resources. The second factor…

With the opening of the Erie canal an ever increasing amount of young males were leaving to the west, leaving their families and especially women to fend for themselves (Hindle 194). The Lowell mills rectified this problem by promoting a new industrial workforce. Young women were the primary labor force for the mills, vast amounts of boarding houses housed the women to help ensure the morality in the factory (Hindle 199). Lowell insured the boarding houses were inviting and comfortable so that…

Introduction The most powerful and prominent force in the world has without a doubt has been, the rapid advancement of technology following the industrial revolution. From the introduction of the steam engine by James Watt to the mass expansion of railway lines, technological advancement has increased productivity and globalization exponentially. By breakthroughs in communication, transportation, and information technology, the world in which we reside has become unrecognizable to what it was…

communication era has ended completely. When looking into the countless changes in day-to-day life, one can understand that each change is or was as a result of technology; one can also argue technology to be the foundation of the mass communication ‘revolution’, with Internet becoming a chief communicator of information to large segments of the population. The following essay will consider the many changes in mass communication, and the audience…

settlement in the cosmopolitan borough of the same name. Evolution of Stockport You would like to know that from the 17th century, Stockport became a center for the hatting industry and later the silk industry. Stockport expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, helped particularly by the growth of the cotton manufacturing industries. However, economic growth took its toll, and 19th century philosopher Friedrich Engels wrote in 1844 that Stockport…

Industrialization changed a lot about european society from the way people work, interact with each other, and even fight. Two battles- Waterloo and the Somme- can adequately illustrate the difference caused by this period of increased industrialization. Although Waterloo was an emotionally traumatizing experience for soldiers, it contained one thing that industrialization destroyed for the soldiers of WW1- hope. The machine gun, created in the time of industrialization, allowed rates of…

eighteen, and they were asked to do many hard works every day. The Child Labors also play an irreplaceable role in the history., Especially, they become very popular during the Industrial Revolution (History.com Staff). Child Labor still exist in some places today. Child labor are very popular during the Industrial revolution because they have many advantages. First, because of the requirement of the nation, more and more children have to leave school and start their ‘working journey’. “The…