Outline: Industrial Revolution(s)

Outline: Industrial Revolution(s)

Origins and “Take-Off”

Preconditions
Markets, consumers, savings
Industry in Britain
Preconditions plus resources
JAMES WATT and MATTHEW BOULTON: Steam Engine
Power looms, spinning jennies
GEORGE STEPHENSON, “The Rocket” (1830)
railways
LANCASHIRE
Britain as “workshop of the world”

Global Industrialization
United States: LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS
Amos Lawrence
Germany
Ruhr Valley, Rhineland
France
Lille

Impact: Global and Local

The Geography of Industry: Suppliers and Manufacturers
India: from exports to imports
USA: north vs. south: industry and the Civil War
A new Eurocentrism

New Towns, New Lives

Impact of industrialization: blessing or curse?
CHARLES DICKENS, “COKETOWN”
Factory Acts

Opportunities
LOWELL MILL GIRLS