The Era Of The Colonial Era

Technological innovations and early factories: the pressure to produce more goods for the growing market and reduce labor costs of manufacturing was directly rated to the first decisive breakthrough of the industrial revolution. Also, some technological

There was great progress in the US during this time, but it was unstable. New inventions and machines made jobs flex. Things that was once man made, machine could do. Work became dangerous, along with long hours and little pay.

It was a slower pace but then this industrial revolution occurred. For example, the seed drill. This was able to fertilize and produce products faster and bring wealth. It’s an entire adaption of change but this change brought availability of jobs. Now, the jobs that were once done by hand were now replaced by machines. For instance, take how the “factories replaced cottage industry and became more efficient through the use of interchangeable parts and the assembly line” ( professor V). With this, came new methods of work, but it wasn’t so much a positive thing. Many workers were in a dangerous condition and faced dreadful hours. They were now just considered wage workers and no longer skilled because of the machines. Though they still wanted fast paced efficiency for their products, it just resulted in accidents. There job was not secured nor were there breaks. This was one of the downfalls of the

The ‘Age of New Imperialism’ in Britain was a time of prosperity and total domination. Compared to previous years of imperialism, this period was focused primarily on benefitting the colonial power, Britain, instead of establishing new settlements. Even though the British imperialism of the late 19th century/early 20th century brought great wealth, knowledge, and technological advancements to the country, it was at the expense of many ‘other’ people in the empire. Britain, and Europe as a whole, had to find a way to justify their ‘superiority’ over these other countries subsequently leading scientists decided to use their background and knowledge to create disciplines that had racist ideologies at the root. These pseudo-sciences were constructed to rationalize the imperialism during the 19th century. This paper will discuss some of the most influential sciences produced during the late 19th century, including social Darwinism, eugenics, and phrenology, that were used to justify British Imperialism and how they supported imperialism.

The Industrial Revolution, was a period of sudden and effective changes that lasted from 1780-1914. (Van Tol, Ottery, & Keith, 2012). Through the course of time, there were many advances in technology, this took lives from being agricultural to industrial. Machines were being used in every sector of the industries. This brought down the prices of goods, making them affordable by everyone and led to significant effects, many positive but also negative ones. It mainly resulted in the improvement of lives, but, it also had considerable negative effects such as child labour, pollution of the environment, countryside being replaced by cities, buildings and factories, crowding and spread of diseases due to overpopulation.

Everyday new technologies were being developed or added to the workplace. Whether it was in the form of replacing a worker or enhancing the workers productivity we see lots of changed because of the new technologies. Mass production had been something that had been in development even in the late 1700’s. We see a things like the making of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney which help clean cotton at faster rates than ever before. The McCormick Reaper was another example where it changed farming in a big way. These are just a few examples showing the early stages of how technology changed the workforce. Our main focus however is the 20th century and we see mass production change forever in this era. In 1913 Tom Ford introduced his assembly line. This was a form of work that made the creations of cars exceptionally faster. Each person had an individual task to do and the assembly line never stopped so the workers had to keep working because the assembly line never stopped. The emphasis was on the division of labor. Since now it was one person to focus on their task instead of doing multiple different task. This caused car production to increase and it started to be that a lot of Americans were able to purchase it because they weren't so expensive that only

The increase in factories expanded the amount of goods made, allowing America to finally meet the demand of the public, and made things cheaper, helping out people who don’t make as much money. The website, history-world.org, proves that factories were finally making enough items when it states, “...finally meeting the demand” (Hackett). This shows that the increase in factories helped because before, merchants weren’t making enough produce to sell, which poorly affected themselves because they were losing money, and the citizens who

● The three decades from 1820 to 1850 were the golden age of invention and innovation in

The Industrial Age was a time of significant change in the working environment. Immigration became prominent and economical order in investment/stock became widely recognized by large brand companies which caused trade between countries to go international. The Industrial Revolution began in Britain around the early 1700’s and by the late 1700’s, Britain had become, “... the world's leading colonial power”. (Industrial Revolution, World Book Student) This revolution eventually spread to America during the early 1900’s. America easily adopted new machineries and invented new methods to speed up production in

Colonialism’s effects are often noticed within certain ethnic and national groups. However, the roots of the effects of colonialism extend far past the group; they begin in individual people. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” and Cullen’s “Heritage” each display how the unique environment created through the clashing of cultures allows individuals to redefine and discover themselves.

The factory system had replaced the cottage industry. Mass production made usually expensive items, such as shoes, less expensive and easily affordable by lower class and less wealthy people. The quality of life had improved. The inventions in the 1800’s didn’t just deal with the cotton industry. Steam engines were used to transport people instead of horses and carriages. The first industrial revolution had changed England, and later the world. They were now ready

The revolution affected the modern machines where the invention of new machines such as spinning, jenny and power loom that permitted increased the production with smaller expenditure of the human power and energy. It leads to the development in transportation and communication as the application of science to the industry. A new organization of work known as the factory system, which entailed increased the division of labor and specialization of function.

Workers had to obtain new skills, attitudes and work discipline. No wonder that many workers disagreed and resisted either actively or passively. Those who were willing to adapt new system were forced to leave their domestic workshop because they would have had a little chance to compete against new factories. It was a change for entrepreneurs as well. They worked out the problems related to management, financing or accounting. If managers wanted to be successful they had to change the organization of work and control their employees. Before, work morale or fixed working hours were not common. Workers used to drink 3 days a week.Work was often inefficient, protracted and changes were necessary. Thanks to English pottery master Josiah Wedgewood, the most important innovations occurred during this era in the labour market. It was subdivision of tasks, training of new workers and work discipline.

The Industrial Revolution - The Industrial Revolution started during 18th century spread around to other parts of the world. The Industrial Revolution was the change to new industrial processes. Before the Industrial Revolution manufacturing was done in people’s homes, using tools or basic equipment. Industrialization marked an alteration to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. (britannica.com, wikipedia.org, history.com).

The employment structures of companies changed, the way companies in a whole were structured changed as well. The use of machines caused production to become faster, easier and more efficient. Using all the resources available with a minimal level of wastage. The industrial revolution led to the creation of wealth, new occupations and mass production. The world’s import demand for food and resources and their own export demand for capital and labour lead to the spreading of the industrialisation and the wealth that was created in Europe. This was all made possible by the vast economic changes, colonialism, hugely improved transportation and communication