Transcript Aim: Why did the IR begin in Britain, and what changes did

Aim: Why did the IR begin in Britain,
and what changes did it bring to
manufacturing processes?
The Agricultural
Revolution
Crop Rotation leads to
Food Surplus which
leads to Population
Boom
Enclosure Movement
leads to cities being
flooded with former
farmers
Why did the IR start in Great Britain?
Geography - island/lots of rivers makes transport easy
Resources in GB – coal and iron, make do with what you
have
Access to raw materials from colonies – cotton is useless
unless you turn it into something
People with money – Shark Tank!
Exports – make stuff to sell
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back.
Cottage Industry: Pre-urbanization
• Urbanization = people moving into modern
cities
• Cottage Industry
– Middlemen buy raw materials (cotton, for
example) and sell to families
– Families work together on each individual product
– Middlemen buy the product back, family gets
some of the profit
Factory System and Assembly Line
• Productivity – how much product you get based
on the effort and labor (work) put in
• Mass Production – make many of the same items
at once
• Interchangeable Parts are used on an Assembly
Line
– Items are assembled piece by piece so if a piece
breaks you can replace one part
– Each person on the assembly line puts together 2
parts of the item – no one makes the whole thing
Aim: What were the social effects of
the Industrial Revolution?
Use the QR codes around the room.
Describe what you think is going on
in the image.