The Industrial Revolution:

Did this benefit our world?

AP World History

Richard Smart

Oakland Mills High School

Metanarratives…How do we explain the 19th Century?

Revolution, Liberalism,

Conservatism & nationalism

Industrialization

UrbanizationTransportationCommunicatio

n

ImperialismColonialismDarwinism

Progress

Technology

Coal:Inexhaustible fuel supply.

Efficient in the form of coke.

Iron & Steel:Darby Family,

Bessemer Process,Strong building blocks

Steam Engine:

James WattInexhaustible

power.

Factory System:Efficient

production

Engineering:Man

overcoming nature.

Communications

Steamships:Global

transportation

Railways:Efficient

transportation on land for people and

goods.

Telegraph:Instant global

communicationNewspapers:

Increased literacy.

Democratic knowledge

Demographic & Environmental

Population Growth:

Decreased mortality

Decreased fertilityUrbanization

Urbanization:Water pollution

Air pollutionPublic Works

Social & Gender Structures

Labor Movements:Labor UnionsChild Labor

Women’s laborWorking hours

Classes:Marxism

Big BusinessMiddle Class

Working Class

Industrial Family:IndependentLong hours

Married Women at home

Working Children

Comparative Industrialization:

Great Britain1700s

BelgiumEarly 1800s

JapanAfter 1860

RussiaLate

1800s

USA1820s

France1830s

Germany1840s

But,What about

China & India?