LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Oliver Mowat, Mastercraftsman, Industrial Revolution
16 Dec 2013
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United states, northern france, parts of germany = early 1800s. Settlement = slow (climate & cultivation problems. Breaks bond of human movement & information movement. Speeds up the passage of information across the atlantic. Changes the transportation time of information from 8 days to 3 minutes. Role of merchants more dependent on merchants. Factory making the goods takes up more of the shop. Journeyman: hoping to get the mastercraftsman status, don"t have as much skill. Work that used to be done my people is now done by machines. Making things you could not make before. Very limited but high impact due to scale. Squaring timber if you make the logs square they are easier to ship. One of the biggest innovations, employ a lot of people. Workers are not completely deskilled, they keep some skill. Control pace & time how much control workers had over the pace and time, especially if they were considered skillful.
