The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the late s and heralded dramatic changes in manufacturing. During the first half of the 19th century British-made goods dominated world trade. London was a leading centre of UK manufacturing from the late 18th to midth century. London, however, was home to a diverse set of industries including garment, furniture, and jewellery making. These businesses were situated towards the end of the production chain and their location was driven by proximity to large markets or a large and skilled workforce London, during this period, offered them both.
In the period following the Second World War, a series of policy interventions attempted to constrain the growth of industry in core cities like London and to encourage growth in other regions of the country. By the early 20th century, the U. Historians continue to debate many aspects of industrialization, including its exact timeline, why it began in Britain as opposed to other parts of the world and the idea that it was actually more of a gradual evolution than a revolution.
The positives and negatives of the Industrial Revolution are complex. On one hand, unsafe working conditions were rife and pollution from coal and gas are legacies we still struggle with today. On the other, the move to cities and inventions that made clothing, communication and transportation more affordable and accessible to the masses changed the course of world history.
Regardless of these questions, the Industrial Revolution had a transformative economic, social and cultural impact, and played an integral role in laying the foundations for modern society. Start your free trial today. Robert C. Oxford: Oxford University Press, New York: Random House, New York: Grove Press, But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. The Industrial Revolution, which began roughly in the second half of the s and stretched into the early s, was a period of enormous change in Europe and America. The invention of new technologies, from mechanized looms for weaving cloth and the steam-powered locomotive to Technology has changed the world in many ways, but perhaps no period introduced more changes than the Second Industrial Revolution.
Child labor, or the use of children as servants and apprentices, has been practiced throughout most of human history, but reached a zenith during the Industrial Revolution. Miserable working conditions including crowded and unclean factories, a lack of safety codes or The labor movement in the United States grew out of the need to protect the common interest of workers.
It gives the impression that everyone, without exception, is suffering from a horrible life. This is exaggerated, because actually there were some rich people too, but the lyrical subject only describes what supports his point of view. For example, they even used little boys to clean the chimneys of the churches, although they should protect children and care for better social conditions.
Moreover, in this stanza there is an acronym. This strengthens that the lyrical subject describes the city by hearing. William Blake Michigan: Twayne Publishers, 74, K O Katharina Ochsenfahrt Author. Add to cart. Table of Contents 1.
Introduction 2. Comparison of the two poems with reference to the documented living conditions 4. Conclusion Bibliography: 1.
Introduction With the invention of the steam engine by James Watt [1] , a new area began in Britain. William Blake Michigan: Twayne Publishers, The city began paving streets in Westminster and the City of London. London also improved roads leading to the city, cutting a coach trip from Edinburgh down to two days instead of two weeks between to London began to recognize its growth with the London Building Act of , setting out building standards to control growth that previously had been haphazard.
This led to overpopulation issues such as the creation of slums where poorer citizens lived in overcrowded tenements and a lack of proper sanitation put these populations at risk for the spread of disease, such as multiple cholera epidemics from to In one such event, Dr. John Snow was able to identify one of the handpump wells on Broad Street as the source of the infection.
From the mid th Century to the early 19 th Century, another major innovation brought to London by the Industrial Revolution was city lighting. Oil lamps were the first to be used in London and by the s, William Murdoch was developing a system to use coal gas in lighting his factory, which eventually led to coal gas street lamps installed at Pall Mall by Federick Albert Winsor in
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