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Unit 9: The Industrial Revolution
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Identify the factors necessary for industrialization to occur. Discuss why an industrial revolution
happened in England first.
Analyze the social impact of the Industrial Revolution on Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Analyze how economic and social developments affected women in England in the period from
1700 to 1850.
Describe the physical transformation of European cities in the second half of the nineteenth
century and analyze the social consequences of this transformation.
Explain the origins of Marx’s major ideas and discuss Marx’s criticism of the classical
economists.
Describe and analyze the issues and ideas in the debate in Europe between 1815 and 1906 over the
proper role of government in the economy. Give specific examples.
Textbook Readings
Chapter 16, Society and Economy under the Old Regime
o The Revolution in Agriculture (Pages 526-529)
o The Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century (Pages 529-539)
o The Growth of Cities (Pages 539-544)
o The Jewish Population (544-546)
Chapter 22, Economic Advance and Social Unrest
o Toward and Industrial Society (Pages 744-745)
o The Labor Force (Pages 745-750)
o Family Structure and the Industrial Revolution (Pages 750-752)
o Women in the Early Industrial Revolution (Pages 752-756)
o Problems of Crime and Order (Pages 756-757)
o Classical Economics (Pages 757-759)
Chapter 24, The Building of European Supremacy
o Population Trends and Migration (Page 816)
o The Second Industrial Revolution (Pages 816-818)
o The Middle Classes (Pages 818-820)
o Urban Life (Pages 820-824)
o Late 19th Century Women’s Experience (Pages 824-834)
Classical Economic Pages: 757-759
Early Socialism: Pages 760-764
Labor, Socialism and Politics: Pages 835-847
Trade Unionism (836)
Democracy & Political Parties (837)
Karl Marx and the First International (837)
Great Britain (838)
France (838-839)
Germany (839-840)
Russia (840-847)
Vocabulary
Agricultural Revolution
Adam Smith
Jethro Tull
Thomas Malthus
Charles Townsend
David Ricardo
Enclosure method
“Iron law of wages”
Consumer revolution
Utilitarianism
“putting-out” system (domestic)
Corn Laws
Spinning jenny
Anti-Corn Law League
Water frame
Second Industrial Revolution
Steam engine
“petite bourgeoisie”
Proletarianization
Georges Haussamann
Chartists
Suburbs
English Factory Acts of 1833
British Public Health Act 1848
Laissez-faire
Melun Act 1851
Invisible hand
suffragettes
Wealth of Nations
Utopian socialism
Hegel’s dialectic
Saint-Simon
Proletariat
Owen
Trade unionism
Fourier
The First International
Anarchism
Fabian Society
Marx
Confederation General du Travail
Engels
German Social Democratic Party (SPD)
The Communist Manifesto