The Industrial Revolution

• How to name periods of history

 Wage Labor

• Yearly contracts
• Tied cottages

• Family Labor

Manufacturing

• artisans
• "putting-out" system
  • "Jimmy Squeezum"
• wool
• hours of labor
• "St. Monday"

Spinning

• Bottleneck
• Spinning Jenny
• James Watt
• Power Spinning

Applications

• iron (puddling and rolling) link
• agricultural processing link

Non-mechanized growth

• coal
• shipping
• just about everything else

Industrial Regions

• Lancashire (Manchester)
• Yorkshire (Leeds)
• Scotland (Glasgow)
• Environment
• "Self-made" men: new elites

Transport: another bottleneck

• Shipping
• Horses and mules
• Canals
• Bridges "Ironbridge" 1781
• Railways
• Puffing Billy 1813-1814
• Stockport and Darlington 1825
• George Stephenson's Rocket 1830
  • William Huskisson

What were the major causes of the "industrial revolution"?

Why was it (later) named a "revolution"?

What was lost, and what was gained, by the working majority of people in Britain during the industrial revolution?