Analysis Of Class And Community The Industrial Revolution In Lynn By Alan Dawley

During “the 19th century, when the Industrial Revolution triggered a series of radical changes national cultural fabric of state societies, the pressures of modernization were also transforming the way of life in traditional communities of peasant and other rural folk” (Haviland et al. 349). One of these transformations brought about by the Industrial Revolution is the invention of the factory. The factory, like capitalism, originated in England, but eventually made its way to America, specifically the region of New England. The factory caused artisans to lose autonomy, now forced to work

The topic I have chosen to discuss related to the last 400 years in Western Civilization is the industrial revolution in Britain. The industrial revolution was what created the modern capitalist system. Britain was the first to lead the way in this huge transformation. Technology changed, businesses, manufactured goods, and wage laborers skyrocketed. There was not only an economic transformation, but also a social transformation. The industrial revolution is such an interesting subject to further explore, because it truly made a difference in Britain in the late 1700s. The industrial revolution brought an increased quantity and variety of manufactured goods and even improved the standard of living for some individuals, however, it resulted in grim employment and living conditions that were for the poor and working classes. The industrial revolution had a bright and dark side to it. It was dark due to all the horrible working conditions, crowded cities, unsanitary facilities, diseases, and unsafe work environment, but the bright side is that it was a period of enormous social progress.

Ford, Coca Cola, Colgate, we all know these brands, selling goods to millions of customers and present all around the world. Surprisingly, modern companies were originally small and owned by individual entrepreneurs according to Gordon Boyce and Simon Ville. The first industrial revolution which began in England in the mid 18th century was a period of economic growth that deeply changed the structure and the processes of the old business entities. Josiah Wedgwood and his pottery business are a symbol of this first revolution. Through this essay we will observe and analyze the main challenges that Wedgwood and his partners took up.

“The very turmoil of the streets has something repulsive, something against which human nature rebels” [Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England, 36]. In the above quotation, German philosopher, Friedrich Engels, shows his readers how poor the living conditions were in industrial towns such as London and Manchester. His goal was to showcase how the effects of the Industrial Revolution had made the working class worse off in comparison to their previous condition in agrarian society. In his nonfiction work, he highlights several of the same and also differing points concerning the working class as Elizabeth Gaskell does in her novel, Mary Barton. The main difference between their two analyses is how each author approaches the working class poor, Engels with a more critical eye and Gaskell with a lens of emotion that builds empathy for the characters.

For the next half century, the simple industrial structure of Worcester changed very little: factory products remained diverse; factory owners remained native-born locally rooted, unified, and paternalistic; factory workers remained ethnic and divided. And then the twentieth century shifted that simple industrial structure: factories turned to new products; factory owners consolidated; new American generations and newer immigrants replaced immigrant workers. Furthermore, due to the fact that the nineteenth century American working-class experience was an intensely local experience, a community study offers the best opportunity for wholly encompassing the lives of Worcester’s workers.

From around 1750 to 1900 Britain went through major changes or transformation in industry, agriculture and transportation that affected everybody’s lives. For some it generally improved their lives, however not all were so lucky. The industrial revolution brought with it many changes good for some and bad for others.

During the time frame of the Industrial Revolution there were 3 main social classes: The upper class, the middle class, and the lower class or the working class.

The Industrial Revolution serves as a key to the beginnings of cutting edge Western society. The same number of history specialists has viewed, "the Industrial Revolution was no inconsequential progression of changes in cutting edge frameworks and era, and however a social change with social reasons furthermore critical social effects. The Industrial Revolution can be said to have made the European working-class. It made the European middle-class as well. In the wake of the Revolution, new social associations appeared. There is no denying the way that the Industrial Revolution began in England eventually after the focal point of the 18th century. England was the "First Industrial Nation." As one money related understudy of history commented in the 1960s, it was England which at first

In “Class and Community the Industrial Revolution in Lynn”, Alan Dawley discusses the changes the town goes through and how the Industrial Revolution changed the life of the town from pre-industry to factory systems. During the novel, the community becomes very materialized and Dawley explains how this creates tension between the elites and working class. Dawley pointed out that because of the corrupt factories and workers, there were hardships and extremes that the community had to overcome to achieve better working conditions.

Urbanization in Great Britain was key to ushering in industrial capitalism to Great Britain, which brought an increased sum of money into the country. Urbanization was caused by the Enclosure movement and a decline of cottage industries. The Enclosure movement took away land from people that was once considered public land. Many people in rural areas needed land to make a living, and because they enclosed this land, many people had to move away from their cottage industries and move into urban areas to work at factories. Once there was an abundance of food and more population throughout Great Britain caused by the Agricultural Revolution, farmers began to move into cities to work in these factories. However, with more people working in

Topic Details:  Dawley argues that John Common's history of the shoemaking industry and its trade unions was correct in some way, but ultimately distorted the history of the shoemakers union during the period 1830 to 1900.  In a detailed essay desribe what Common's managed to get right, according to Dawley, about the development of the shoe industry and its unions, and what he misrepresented. Conclude the essay by explaining whether you agree with Commons or Dawley and why.

The industrial revolution was a big change in history for the United States. It was a time in the 1700s to the 1800s when there was a transition to the manufacturing processes. A lot of the hard hand work was being replaced by machines, steam power was on the rise, water power was getting more efficient, and chemical and iron manufacturing were growing quickly. Almost everyone’s life was affect by this change in the manufacturing process. If we were to look at the life of a cobbler or shoemaker at the beginning of this changing industrialization period, what would it look like? Would this be a giant opportunity or a disaster? There can be a few different ways the industrial revolution can affect this person’s life as a cobbler.

There is no doubt that the Industrial Revolution plays a central role in the modern British history. The structure of British society has forever changed by the impact and consequences of Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution is often stated as the increase of the number of factories, the exercise of steam power in a wide range of area and the mass-production produced by new technology in the course of 1750 to 1850 (Lane, 1978: 72). Engles (1986: 37) argued that the Industrial Revolution’s mainly development were the invention of the steam engine and the cotton industry. As the improvement of technology, the steam engine could produce more power with less

Friederick Engels in The Condition of the Working Class in England describes the inhumane and atrocious living and working conditions for the proletariat in England. He describes life in England before the Industrial revolution and how there was a shift in population from rural farmland to urban cities. Engels describes as factories grew, the demand of labor increased, and the population in cities increased the quality of living for those people in factories deteriorated. The descriptions that Engels uses to describe the smells and the appearance of streets filled with human waste ghastly because it creates these images that it is unimaginable that someone could live that way. There are buildings filled for from “cellar to garret” by Engels but he also gives us the disturbing number of around 50,000 humans looking for housing in the refuges for the houseless. The living conditions and the areas of the cities where these poor living conditions are found lead to diseases among the population of the working class. The breaking apart of families because they are working twelve to thirteen hour days at times more so they do not have time for family. As a result of the exhaustion and stressful low paying work the working class turn to drinking as the only escape for the miserable work they must go through on a daily basis. The book describes the workers as nothing but hands at times, they are seen as interchangeable pieces to

In the middle of the 19th century the industrial revolution was flourishing in England. With all of the advancements in machinery there would be new opportunities and drawbacks for citizens. Many would leave their lives on the farms and work in factories with unsafe settings. Karl Marx felt that the new advancements in society were able to support the fourth stage of human development, Communism. Along with these new advancements the people would have to learn how to self-govern themselves in the workplace and understand their new responsibilities.