The turnips grew in the winter which gave the livestock a food source. ... The canals were much faster and more efficient than the roads. ... Trains could transport much more than barges could at a much faster speed. ... Transportation got faster and faster and led to planes, faster trains, and many other things. ...
However, with the surplus in goods being manufactured, it wasn't being transported fast enough. ... It started when the cottage industry, where goods were made by piecework, were replaced by machines set up in factories to make work much faster and more efficient. ... There would be no more cars, no more computers, no more designer clothing, and no more Mc Donald's or fast food chains. ...
Manufactured goods and food increased in availability because of the quick transportation the railroad provided. The population also went up because food was available in in many variety and at a low cost. ... The invention of the telegraph was essential so that communication could become easier and faster. ... The lives of people living in cities changed very fast. ... If the Industrial Revolution had never happened we may still be growing all our own food and making our clothes by hand. ...
This helped workers get to their post faster and more conveniently. ... Finished products, raw materials, and food could also be stored in these catalysts of transportation (Montagna 3). This contributed to help the normal working American get where they needed to go and also be able to get there faster and cheaper. Transportation was a large piece of the industrial progress in our world, and without the plans of this we would be a big step behind in our fast paced lives. ...
Factory profits had boosted the economy, and more food was available, both of which helped the population with increased health care. ... A few years later, Richard Arkwright invented the water frame, which used waterpower than spun cloth even faster; the new machines put an end to the putting out system. ... Instead, factures built long sheds near fast moving streams to power the machines. ... A child lucky enough to escape sickness is still faced with the large, heavy and fast moving machines they knew little about. ... Whipping was a popular mean to make children work faster. ...
Factory owners were responsible for providing their pauper apprentices with food. Children constantly complained about the quality of the food. ... This meant that the food tended to get covered with the dust from the cloth. Their common food was oatcake. ... Children were usually hit with a strap to make them work faster. ...
Regardless of the criticisms, including the sometimes "slow" pace of the Web (the Web has not yet achieved the same status as a fast-food restaurant), it has the potential to change our lives in tremendous ways, adding to our entertainment and information resources. ...
By 1824 the United States adopted the idea of interchangeable parts, doing so not only led to faster gun production, but quickened the manufacturing rate in all other venues, The Revolution completely transformed America's economy, it made a full switch from an agricultural economy, to an industrial one. ... Although the wages did increase, the rich class had to watch the poor class suffer in dreadful housing, eat adulterated food, have health hazards, and mental trauma. ...
The first one focuses on the improvements in agriculture that lead to greater food production, factories, and machines that decreased the amount of manual labor that had to be done. ... During the next twenty years, Britain had almost 6000 miles of railway and this meant faster and cheaper transportation, that decreased the price of goods, and improving markets. ... An increase in food production lead to more people being able to get the proper nutrition and the increase in urban populations lead to the increase in industries. ... With the growing power of the industry, modern conveniences ...
Many families stopped raising all of their own food, and spinning their own wool. ... Turnpikes and steamboats were first used to make traveling faster and cheaper. ... It was fast, reliable, cheaper than canals to build, and not stopping in winter. ... Many farmers in New England had to move west due to the cheaper prices of food coming in. ...
The population had doubled within 30 years, driving many citizens out of business (farmers being the majority) and into either factory jobs with horrible conditions, or no job at all, resulting in an unemployment rate rising almost as fast as the immigration rate. ... This was a huge break-through in trade amongst the nation, allowing goods to be transferred, including perishable foods, to virtually anywhere in the country in a much faster time. ...
As the meatpacking industry developed through the industrial revolution they had to lay off some of their workers so machines to do the job faster and more efficient could replace them. ... Once this book was published and these supposed truths of the meat-packing plants and the fraud that was occurring in the came to the attention of the Food and Drug Administration there were new meat-packing laws devised, and quite and uproar with everyone the United States that this could on in a factory. ...
The most appalling and horrifying moment to the audience concerning the food was the bones in the tank. ... Another huge issue once Jurgis returned to work was that someone had taken his spot, someone more fast paces, and they would not change that. ...
An educated work force helped their economy, with the fast growing population provided a major market and a very skilled work force. ... Food production, agriculture, housing, air pollution, energy production and consumption and all other basic needs of human survival are connected to the demands and usage of the resources available to us. ... It became cheaper, faster and comfortable. ...
He stated that there were, "A plentiful of navigable rivers to facilitate movement of bulky goods, access to the sea for foreign trade and fast flowing streams which provided motive power for the early mills. ... Eric Williams stated, "By 1774, 15 roperies in Liverpool had been created and fish was the most important food supply." ...
Also, the spinning Jenny, water-loom, and the separation of seeds from their fibers saved time Production increased greatly because the weaving and spinning of cotton and wool went faster. ... The increase of population also led to a higher demand for food, clothes, and fabrics. ...
In order to keep this standard of living, they produced fewer children, which would have competed with the animals for the scarce food resources (Jones 14-15). ... Europeans enjoyed better clothing, more varied food, more furniture and more household utensils than did their counterparts in China and India. ... By keeping a large population from which to start, recovery could take place somewhat faster when capital stocks were depleted from disasters. ...
Consumerism, a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the consumption of products. Stewart Ewen, in his essay "Chosen People" addresses the topic of consumerism in the middle class of America and suggests different negative effects. He supports his claim by describing the nature of t...
Businesses had money to manufacture more products at faster rates causing the factories to boom in England's cities. ... The Agricultural Revolution resulted in an increased amount of food in England and in effect, the population increased. ...
Some owners sought shortcuts by hiring orphans from London and other cities and bringing them to the northern textile mills with the promise of wages, food and housing. ... The many physical dangers inherent in the early factories might include working in mills with temperatures of more than 80 degrees, inhaling dust from the textile fibers, and injury of death from fast-moving, unsafe machinery. ...
History of Labor in America The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into...
