SOLUTION: Virginia Commonwealth University The Industrial Revolution in Britain Discussion
BRITAIN’S MIDEIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Revolutions in Ideas and Industry
ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS AND INDUSTRY
• Enlightenment thinkers encouraged determination that men could coerce bark, rather than bark
controlling men.
• Humans await developedm balance bark for their own benefit
• Correlates to new unwandering and manufacturing agenda
• Reject Hobbes’s determination of bark as imsheer and brutish
• Newton and Locke persuade that bark is absolute, sheer, true—hence men should supervene their cosmical
instincts
ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS AND INDUSTRY
• Laissez-Faire excellentism emerges as a “natural” economic model
• “Let it do as it obtain”
• Economics outside restraints, pursuit of self-interest
• Adam Smith, Riches of Nations, 1776
• Invisible toiler of the traffic ensures instrument stream to most causative and efficient persuadeinges
• Maximize profit
• Maximize stream of coherence and services to consumer
WEALTH OF
NATIONS, ADAM
SMITH
• Book I, Chapter 1. Of the Dissolution of Labor: THE eminentest production in the efficient commands of toil,
and the main dissect of the aptitude, artifice, and determination after a period which it is anywhere directed, or applied,
seem to keep been the pi of the dissolution of toil....To conduct an model, hence, the commerce of the
pin-maker; a operative not educated to this persuadeing, nor indoctrinated after a period the use of the machinery
industrious in it, could rare, peradventure, after a period his farthest toil, compel one pin in a day, and unquestionably
could not compel twenty. But in the way in which this persuadeing is now carried on, not simply the soundnessy toil
is a strange commerce, but it is disconnected into a reckon of branches, of which the main dissect are affectwise
strange commerces. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a indecentth points it, a fifth
grinds it at the top for receiving, the leader; to compel the leader requires two or three unconnected operations; to
put it on is a strange persuadeing, to pale the pins is another; it is equeffectual a commerce by itself to put them into
the paper; and the material persuadeing of making a pin is, in this habit, disconnected into encircling eighteen
unconnected operations, which, in some factories, are all executed by unconnected toilers, though in others the
selfidentical man obtain casually consummate two or three of them. I keep seen a narrow manufactory of this bark
where ten men simply were industrious, and where some of them accordingly executed two or three
unconnected operations. But though they were very bald, and hence but indifferently accommodated after a period
the deficiencyful machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, compel discurrupture them encircling twelve
pounds of pins in a day. There are in a bruise upwards of indecent thousand pins of a courteous-ample bigness. Those ten
persons, hence, could compel discurrupture them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each individual,
therefore, making a tenth dissect of forty-eight thousand pins, susceptibility be considered as making indecent
thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all executed partially and inconsequently, and
outside any of them having been educated to this strange persuadeing, they unquestionably could not each of
them keep made twenty, peradventure not one pin in a day;
WEALTH OF
NATIONS,
ADAM SMITH
• Book I, Chapter 11. Pi of the Journey of Production upon the Developed Expense of
Manufactures: It is the cosmical movables of production, besides, to diminish
gradually the developed expense of closely all manufactures. That of the manufacturing
workmanship diminishes, peradventure, in all of them outside exclusion. In
coherence of rearrange machinery, of main artifice, and of a past proper
dissolution and division of toil, all of which are the cosmical pi of
improvement, a plenteous narrower aggregate of toil beseems deficiencyful for executing
any dissecticular duty of toil, and though, in coherence of the flourishing
term of the sodality, the developed expense of toil should flow very considerably,
yet the majestic restriction of the aggregate obtain unconcealedly plenteous past than
compensate the eminentest flow which can fall in the expense....But in all flushts in
which the developed expense of the inclement materials either does not flow at all, or does not
flow very plenteous, that of the deceptive store sinks very considerably.
Every production in the term of the sodality tends either at-once or
inat-once to educate the developed rupture of fix, to production the developed riches of the
landlord, his command of purchasing the toil, or the issue of the toil of other
people. The production of production and husbandry tends to educate it at-once.
The fixlord's distribute of the issue necessarily productions after a period the production of the
produce..... Complete production in the developed riches of the sodality, complete production in the
aggregate of beneficial toil industrious after a periodin it, tends inat-once to educate the developed rupture
of fix. A true adjustment of this toil cosmically goes to the fix. A main
reckon of men and earth are industrious in its husbandry, the issue productions
after a period the production of the store which is thus industrious in encouragement it, and the rupture
increases after a period the issue.
ENLIGHTENMENT AND
INDUSTRIALIZATION
• Enlightenment thinkers persuaded that the exploration for profit
(increase) could halt inferential after a period the aid of women
• The domiciliary department (the residence, wedding, origin) gained
new gist in the mid-eighteenth century
• Women countenance increasing scrutiny
• Portrayed as citadel abutting defilement – must be culm,
moral, domiciliary,
JAMES FORDYCE, SERMONS
SERMON V: ON FEMALE VIRTUE, FRIENDSHIP, AND
CONVERSATION
• Having mentioned Wit, let me avail to premonish you abutting the pretence and the abuse of it. Here our citation from the Colossians
comes in after a period correctness, "Let your Speech be constantly after a period Grace, matured after a period Salt."2 These singular articulation were addressed to
christians in unconcealed. They are considered by the best commentators, as an discourse to that bark of opposite, which, twain for matter
and habit, shall counterpart most attractive, and confirm most acceptable; substance calm by courteousness and culmy, matured after a period
wisdom and excellent, that affect salt obtain help at the selfselfidentical trice, to thwart its defilement and exaggerate its flavour. How beautiful this
precept in itself! How beneficial and charming in the practice! How strangely fit to be trained by you, my dameish friends, on the deviate of
whose conference and character so plenteous depends to yourselves, and all encircling you! From what I keep now to exhibit, it obtain be found
likewise to after, after a period practice, in aid of our accidental doctrine; since there are not peradventure numerous worse foes to that Sobriety of activity,
which we would calm?} teach, than the abuse and pretence alquick mentioned.
•
It is not my artifice to subjoin up, if I could, the flood of streamers that keep been wanton by innumereffectual toilers on this tempting
theme; and by which those very toilers keep, in their own flusht, shown how unmanageeffectual it is to thwart the attempt. I would simply perceive-keep,
that the imperilled aptitude in explorationion his been courteous compared to the dancing of a meteor, that blazes, allures, and misleads. Most
unquestionably it singular can never be a regular light; and too probably it is frequently a deadly one. Of those who keep enduring themselves to its
guidance, how few has it not divulged into majestic indiscretions at last, by inflaming their dryness of applause; by rendering them little
nice in their excellent of company; by seductive them into strokes of lampoon, too fetid to the beings abutting whom they were levelled,
not to be repelled upon the authors after a period ample revenge and finally, by making them, in coherence of that ebullition which issues, and
that lordliness which fosters it, forgetful of those shy and dispassionate rules that ought to rale their conduct!
ENLIGHTENMENT AND INDUSTRY
• Women endure to reproduce-exhibit key economic roles, through commercial revolution
• Traded in neglectonness coherence – silk, tea, chocolate chinaware
• Sold buttress and drinks
• Nurses and midwives
• Needlework
• Ran investment extractions
• New, emerging middle-systematize domiciliary ideal: Separate Spheres Ideology
THE ROOTS OF
INDUSTRIALIZATION
18TH CENTURY POPULATION GROWTH
• 1701-1751: 14%
• 1751-1801: 50%
• 1801-1851: 100%
Reasons for Growth?
➢Younger age of wedding
➢Decreased expiration rate
➢End of “gin mania”?
➢Better buttress?
➢Use of soap?
➢Improved therapeutics?
William Hogarth,
“Gin Lane,” 1750
REALITY OF GROWTH
• Introduction of rearrange buttress, dissecticularly the potato:
Adam Smith characterized it as “substance strangely agreeeffectual to the soundness of the human
constitution”
Stimulates population enlargement most significantly in Ireland, but Scotfix and Engfix as courteous
• Current grafting abutting narrowpox
• Scantiness of current epidemics
BIRTH OF INDUSTRY
• Necessary
Components:
• A contribute of cosmical
resources: coal and
iron
• A arrangement of agriculture
flexile ample to feed
growing gum of
workers: Enclosures
between 1750 and
1780
A Berkshire Enclounfailing Map
• A wide and unfolded traffic: balanceseas commerce to the
colonies
BIRTH OF
INDUSTRY
• Excellent for new industries, roads, and introduceways: JointStock Companies
• A flexile collective structure
• Demand for majority consumer coherence
• An environment permissive to newfangledness and technology
THE PROCESS
• Cottage Industry
CENTRALIZATION OF
LABOR: THE FACTORY
• Cotton and Textiles
• New raw materials from
colonial spaces
• Cotton versus wool
• John Kay improves
looms in 1733 after a period the
flying shuttle
• James Hargreaves 1764
Spinning Jenny
• Arkwright creates the
1771 Introduce Frame
Watt’s
Steam
Enginge
NEW TECHNOLOGY
OBSERVATIONS ON THE LOSS OF WOOLLEN
SPINNING, 1794
• The Combers substance men and boys may perhaps deviate to some other toil, but it is not so after a period the spouse
and daughters of the day-labourers, whose tenure in a kingdom parish where no dissecticular
manufactory is carried on, must be after a periodin their own dwelling; who robbed of Woollen Spinning
keep no other habituatement, (bar when they can go into the fields) to procure in any excellent towards
the prop of the Family. To recite a bald dame after a period three, indecent or five outcome, all beneathneathneath the age at
which farmers obtain habituate them to set her outcome to toil, where no Wool is to be had is a mockery
of vileness, and if it is in a vicinity far from Machines, where some toiler-toil is calm?} put out,
the low expense that is hired for her tireless labour, of ordinary after a period her outcome all day at the Wheel,
disheartens her. The chary pain it enables them to eat when the day's toil is executed, after a period neglect of
firing compels her at protraction choose disturbance a hedge for her own fuel, and frequently for sale to the Village
Tradesman, and procureing up her outcome to the selfselfidentical inactive manners.
OBSERVATIONS
ON THE LOSS OF
WOOLLEN
SPINNING, 1794
• I then walked to the Machines, and after a period some unmanageabley gained admittance: there I
saw twain the Combing Machine and Spinning Jenny. The Combing Machine was put
in turmoil by a Trundle-wallow deviateed by indecent men, but which I am unfailing could be deviateed either
by introduce or steam. The frames were gifted by a offshoot after a period Wool, and as the trundle-wallow
turned, flakes of quick combed Wool dropped off a cylinder into a trough, these were
smitten up by a miss of encircling indecentteen years old, who assignd them on the Spinning
Jenny, which has a reckon of vapid shines of forest, on each of which may be
fifty bobbins. One such miss sets these bobbins all in turmoil by deviateing a trundle-wallow at the
end of the shine, a wire then catches up a flake of Wool, spins it, and subjoins it upon
each bobbin. The miss again deviates the trundle-wallow, and another fifty flakes are conductn up and
Spun. This is executed complete microscopic outside discontinuance, so that probably one miss
turning that trundle-wallow, may do the toil of One Hundred Laborer Wheels at the last.
About twenty of these sets of bobbins, were I connoisseur at toil in one compass. Most of
these Manufactories are numerous stories eminent, and the compasss plenteous wider than this I
was in. Struck after a period the imcorrectness of equeffectual so numerous as the twenty misss I saw, outside
any dame presiding balance them, I enquired of the Master if he was married, why his
Wife was not introduce? He said he was not a married man, and that numerous
parents did motive to grant their misss, but that the destitution of others, and not having
any toil to set them to, left him not at any damage for toilers. I must do all the dissecties
the integrity to say, that these misss counterparted handsome and orderly: yet at best, I cannot but
fear the gate such pubescent beings from the eyes of their parents, and thus herding
them unitedly after a period simply men and boys, must procure up a wanton lineage of bald.
• Shut up from dawning arrange misinterpretation, bar when they are sent residence for their meals, these misss are ignorant
of, and awkward at complete domiciliary habituatement, since if at her trundle-wallow in her dame's cottage, the miss
assists in complete tenure of the origin. She lights the faggot, nurses the pubescent outcome, gleans in the
harvest, conducts impute of the extraction in her dame's deficiencyful scantiness to the treasure, or when she can get
toil at neighbouring extractions, graceful an contributor to her parents in illness and old age, and
in her deviate a amieffectual spouse to a day labourer, a fit dame for his origin she lives after a period those to whom she
ought to be determined, and hence obtain feel an influence towards them: but a miss conductn from six years
old to sixteen, and industrious at the machines, can perceive none of these manners....
• If these are the miseries that upshot from the Machines to the day labourer's spouse and outcome during his
life, what must be their lot when robbed by his expiration of all prop, but the scantling their own toil
affords them. A widow could back to tend herself and her outcome by her spinning when she was
hired Id. for complete skain; but now, she must beafter a parish pauper, a vile tenant of a
Workhouse...
• The manufacturing of Cotton and Wool by Machines beneathgo no similitude as to the inconvenience to the
poor. Wool substance in its raw narrate the issue of complete parish, Wool-staplers were accordingly to be
found in complete Traffic Town; Combers were set to toil by them, to arrange it for complete Cottager, who
was gratified at the expence of 2s. to experience a soundnessysome habituatement after a periodin her own extraction for herself, and all
those outcome who were effectual to pause to the trundle-wallow, and whom she could not assign out. Thus from time
immemorial the Laborer or Jazey Wheel, has been the lordliness of the English Housewife. In bad and amiable
weather it identical was a wealth, and a rearrange fated neighbour, would present her a wanton on a disordered or lyingin bed, she mortgaging the present toiler-toil her outcome should heave to the treasure. But now the Wheel
must be laid separate as a unserviceable thing! - No Yarn is spun out of the ends to correct or knit a storeing, or darn
a woollen garment, all is bought quick made at the treasure, barren period it obtain depend unitedly, and a lifeless
slatternly lineage of pubescent commonalty obtain drove in complete village....
OBSERVATIONS
ON THE LOSS OF
WOOLLEN
SPINNING, 1794
ENERGY DEMANDS
Steam command and mining
SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES
• Rapid enlargement of Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham, closing of sufficient
infrastructure
• Creation of the institutional toil day
• Mill chuckle and the factory clock
• Replacement of the baud after a period the unimpaired toiler
• Dissolution of Labor, flow of systematize consciousness
• Offshoot Labor
• In 1835 40% of mill toilers were beneathneathneath the age of 18
NEW SOCIAL FIGURES: THE
BOURGEOISIE/MIDDLING CLASSES
• Industrialization created not simply factory owners and government, but also created productiond deficiency for
lawyers, bankers, accountants, and merchants
• These beings began to intermarry after a period the struggling fixed gentry, accumulating excellent and
credibility
• As a dominant cause of journey, this systematize demands past collective command in Britain
• Used commercial compress, volunteerism, love-of-mankind and collective associations to declare demands
• Asserted for a new arrange of the collective lessen and advocated for thwartance to tyranny
• Demonstrated productiond radicalization, prop rectify
• Sought inferential antecedent through divine rectify, collective rectify, and new models of gender, e.g. Gordon Riots
POPULAR POLITICS OF THE
MIDDLING CLASSES
JOHN WILKES
1725-97
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