Industrial+Era

The Industrial Era >> >> >>> >>
 * **Triggers for Change**
 * European trading advantage increased while other gunpowder empires diminished
 * The Ottomans shrank as the wars against Russia failed
 * New revolutionary technology that furthered Europe's economic standing
 * Steam engine
 * Mercantilism, supply and demand capitalism, and government support fostered industrial growth
 * More production = greater profits
 * Internal Improvements
 * Central banks
 * Lack of labor rights
 * Population increase about 1730
 * Secularism inspired by the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution compelled businessmen to be more venturous
 * **The Big Changes**
 * New sources of power
 * Coal >> steam
 * New forms of work management
 * Scientific management: Taylorism and Fordism
 * Improvements to agricultural production
 * Consequences of the factory system
 * More specialized and closely supervised work
 * Dismantling of family labor
 * Displacement into the factories
 * Education for children
 * Bourgeois socio-political voice
 * Enfranchisement of the lower classes
 * Strengthened law enforcement
 * National identifies weakened local and religious attachments and redefined identities for people
 * Few societies initiated industrial revolutions
 * Mainly to increase production of raw materials and food supplies
 * Took many traditional home manufacturers, mainly women, out of the job
 * Basis of imperialism
 * Slavery and serfdom was consider immoral
 * Ecological devastation due to pollution and soil depletion
 * **Continuity**
 * Various groups responded differently to change
 * Abolishment of the Japanese feudal system, but carried over into business management
 * Russian popular literature of state > anarchy vs. Western popular literature of the opposite
 * "Domesticism" of women in the West
 * **Impact on Daily Life: Leisure**
 * Factories denounced traditional festivals and idleness
 * Introduction of professional sports, vacations, professional entertainment (carnivals)
 * **Societies and Trends**
 * Chapter 23: New settler societies
 * Chapter 24: Imperialism
 * Chapter 25: Latin American changes
 * Chapter 26: Asian Industrialization/Subordination
 * Chapter 27: Russian and Japanese Industrialization


 * 1) Atlantic Revolutions
 * 2) Industrialization and Imperialism
 * 3) Latin American Consolidation
 * 4) Civilizations in Decline
 * 5) Russia, Japan, and the West