SOC 472 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Industrial Revolution, Market Economy, Absenteeism
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Soc 472: industrial revolution: word manufacture literal means production by hand , one important consequence of the industrial revolution was the emergence of large numbers of wage workers, or proletarians, to use the term favored by marxists. With water wheel factories had to be located near a source of power (river, coal to boiled water to create steam) The factory: more about efficiency so time is a big factor (what did you do in the hour and how many) becomes heavily supervised, work in the factory was different than work on the farm. In the past, during agricultural times, wealth was derived by land ownership. Prices drop tremendously, and the person selling the items could not afford the materials to sell it. Ended up going out of business, factories became wealthy: where they were able to strongly influence high culture . Industrialization and mass production dropped prices, craftsmen could not compete.
