[Industrial Revolution]
  
Before class 
  
      * Read Palmer, 427-436 
  
      * Key terms
  
	agricultural revolution		 
	enclosure acts				
	John Kay					 
	Richard Arkwright		
	James Watt
	steam engine 
	Manchester
	cotton lords
	laissez faire
	Factory Act
	iron law of wages
  
      * Key concepts: industrialization; industrialism; classical economics 
  
      * Key questions


1. Of what basic significance for the Industrial Revolution in Britain was the Agricultural 
Revolution? 

2. What combination of circumstances helped to create a favorable environment for the 
emergence of machine industry in Britain? 

3. What important population and urban changes accompanied the Industrial Revolution in 
Britain?  Why was it difficult to deal with the problems of rapid urbanization?  (Cf. map on 
p. 434.) 
  
4. How did the new factory system affect the working classes? 

[Industrial Revolution]
 
In class 
  
      * Outline
  
		1. Introduction: what is industrialization? 
	
		2. "Causes" 
  
			a. industrialization 
			b. urbanization 
			c. modernization 
  
		3. Five interconnected revolutions 
	
		4. Why was Britain first? 
	
		5. Stages 
		
		6. Four social consequences 

      * Key terms
  
        Adam Smith
	capital 
	proletariat 
	bourgeoisie 

      * Key concepts: industrial revolution, individualism

      * Key question:

Every other factory town in England is a paradise in comparison to this hole.  In Manchester 
the air lies like lead upon you; in Birmingham it is just as if you were sitting with your nose in a stove pipe;
in Leeds you have to cough with the dust and the stink as if you had swallowed a round of Cayenne pepper in
one go-but you can put up with all that.  In Bradford, however, you think you have been lodged with the devil
incarnate.  If anyone wants to feel how a poor sinner is tormented in Purgatory, let him travel to Bradford.

George Weerth, a young German on holiday in England, describing Bradford in 1846.