The amount of knowledge gathered, and thereby the technology, is exponential with the amount of knowledge already possessed. The result of the industrial revolution was therefore that the amount of knowledge gathered by humans reached a critical level.
Because the industrial revolution was a so significant an overwhelming change, some kind of transitional bump was created. In this bump, the culture and common way of living and thinking was not up to date with the enormous pace with which technology and business methods developed. This resulted in weird overlaps or missing parts of the social structure; among others sudden movement of people from farmland to cities.
Normally people were responsible for their own welfare and were not depending on other people, except for really specialized services such as forging, to survive. But this was changed the industrial revolution greatly increased the amount of land a man could take care of, and therefore made many people without a living. The factories created a lot of jobs on the other hand, and therefore caused a lot of former farmers to move to the cities and work as uneducated labor on the new factories.
But the employee-employer culture was not yet established and the workers did not realize their own power. This lead to cruel exploitation of the workers which now suddenly was depending on others who had complete control over their life’s. Ultimately this caused a very clear unbalance between rich and poor since the employer was free to pay the desperate farmers whatever they wanted. This was of cource greatly improved later, but that was after th actual industrial revolution.
Another example of one of those bumps is the sudden explosion of the population followed by a great deal of nasty diseases. This was a result of a combination of a drastically drop in the death rate and a likewise drastically increase in the birth rate. Because of the numberless technological advances, the medical care system was getting much more efficient. this, together with plenty, more healthy food caused by the technological breakthroughs in the agriculture, lowered the death rate to hitherto unknown low numbers. At the same time, marriage, which before was a relatively rare event in small isolated villages, were getting much more common due to the movement to the cities. This, of cource, increased the birth rate.
Suddenly the population reached very high numbers. All this people were stuffed into the cities, desperately trying to get a living. But the employers were greedy and the salary extremely small. So because of another bump in the transition from an agriculture society to an industrial society, the cities were stuffed with extremely poor, unsupported, unemployed people ravaged by numberless diseases and exploited by a small group of rich businessmen.
Mechanization and innovation
So what was the industrial revolution driven by? The industrial revolution was a result of many different things; all enabling each other in the continues development of new methods and technologies. So let us just start with the invention of the steam engine. These innovations made it possible to place factories were there was the easiest access to workers or the shortest distance to the coal mine etc. before they had to be placed near running water in order to have an energy source. Suddenly factories became much more efficient, allowing a much faster and better refining of raw steel. This again lead to better railways and a cheaper metal in general. Now banks had to adapt to the development of the business marked, because of the greatly increased flow of goods, which often times made companies unable to pay for purchase good before they had been passed farther down in “the food chain”.
The development of the banks was just the beginning of the modern business world, were incorporated companies and similar installations contribute to maintain the flow of wares and the continues establishing of new companies.
Units per man hour
This is an old way of measuring the amounts of a kind of material/product you can get refined/produced/etc. per hour an employee is working. For example: “10 liters pr. Man hour” would mean that it would take an employee one hour to produce/refine/etc. ten liters of liquid.
this expression was invented then the transition from an agricultural society to an industrial society. now employers suddenly needed overview of the production capabilities of there stab.
pace of change
The amount of knowledge gathered, and thereby the technology, is exponential with the amount of knowledge already possessed. The result of the industrial revolution was therefore that the amount of knowledge gathered by humans reached a critical level.
Because the industrial revolution was a so significant an overwhelming change, some kind of transitional bump was created. In this bump, the culture and common way of living and thinking was not up to date with the enormous pace with which technology and business methods developed. This resulted in weird overlaps or missing parts of the social structure; among others sudden movement of people from farmland to cities.
Normally people were responsible for their own welfare and were not depending on other people, except for really specialized services such as forging, to survive. But this was changed the industrial revolution greatly increased the amount of land a man could take care of, and therefore made many people without a living. The factories created a lot of jobs on the other hand, and therefore caused a lot of former farmers to move to the cities and work as uneducated labor on the new factories.
But the employee-employer culture was not yet established and the workers did not realize their own power. This lead to cruel exploitation of the workers which now suddenly was depending on others who had complete control over their life’s. Ultimately this caused a very clear unbalance between rich and poor since the employer was free to pay the desperate farmers whatever they wanted. This was of cource greatly improved later, but that was after th actual industrial revolution.
Another example of one of those bumps is the sudden explosion of the population followed by a great deal of nasty diseases. This was a result of a combination of a drastically drop in the death rate and a likewise drastically increase in the birth rate. Because of the numberless technological advances, the medical care system was getting much more efficient. this, together with plenty, more healthy food caused by the technological breakthroughs in the agriculture, lowered the death rate to hitherto unknown low numbers. At the same time, marriage, which before was a relatively rare event in small isolated villages, were getting much more common due to the movement to the cities. This, of cource, increased the birth rate.
Suddenly the population reached very high numbers. All this people were stuffed into the cities, desperately trying to get a living. But the employers were greedy and the salary extremely small.
So because of another bump in the transition from an agriculture society to an industrial society, the cities were stuffed with extremely poor, unsupported, unemployed people ravaged by numberless diseases and exploited by a small group of rich businessmen.
Mechanization and innovation
So what was the industrial revolution driven by? The industrial revolution was a result of many different things; all enabling each other in the continues development of new methods and technologies. So let us just start with the invention of the steam engine. These innovations made it possible to place factories were there was the easiest access to workers or the shortest distance to the coal mine etc. before they had to be placed near running water in order to have an energy source. Suddenly factories became much more efficient, allowing a much faster and better refining of raw steel. This again lead to better railways and a cheaper metal in general. Now banks had to adapt to the development of the business marked, because of the greatly increased flow of goods, which often times made companies unable to pay for purchase good before they had been passed farther down in “the food chain”.
The development of the banks was just the beginning of the modern business world, were incorporated companies and similar installations contribute to maintain the flow of wares and the continues establishing of new companies.
Units per man hour
This is an old way of measuring the amounts of a kind of material/product you can get refined/produced/etc. per hour an employee is working. For example: “10 liters pr. Man hour” would mean that it would take an employee one hour to produce/refine/etc. ten liters of liquid.
this expression was invented then the transition from an agricultural society to an industrial society. now employers suddenly needed overview of the production capabilities of there stab.