Glossary:
Readings:
Nolan & Lenski: Chapter 9
Presentations:
Glossary:
| innovation | entropy | revolution |
| commercialization | commodification | Enlightenment |
| cash-crop production | primary industries | contradiction |
| demographic transition | detailed division of labor | scientific management |
| Malthusianism | Protestant Ethic | disintegration |
| disorganization | exponential growth | deforestation |
| forces of production | fordism | fundamental innovation |
| trading networks | historical materialism | industrial production |
| Industrial Revolution | operatives and laborers | science |
| secondary industries | labor | Luddites |
| underemployment | unemployment rate | union |
Essays:
On your next exam you will be asked to demonstrate that you have read and mastered the course material. You should take the time now to answer the following essay questions to create your study guide for that exam. Address the questions fully and completely in your own words and voice. Prepare your answers now.
According to your instructor, how did the intensification of late agrarian production and population cause the initial Industrial Revolution?
According to Nolan & Lenski, what are the four phases of the Industrial Revolution?
Write an essay asserting that the Industrial Revolution is still on-going today. What role do the factors identified as contributing to the initial revolution play in this on-going change?
Short
Answers:
The following short answer questions are from your readings and may well appear on your next exam. Each can be answered with a short paragraph of three or four sentences; please use your own words and voice. You are encouraged to answer these questions now to create your study guide for that exam.
What role did the accumulation of information play in the initial Industrial Revolution?
What role did the printing press play in the Industrial Revolution?
What role did improvements in transportation play in the initial Industrial Revolution?
What role did the discovery of the New World play in the Industrial Revolution?
What ideological changes occurred that provided positive feedback to the Industrial Revolution?
What advances in agriculture occurred prior to the Industrial Revolution? What impact did these advances have on industrial development?
The Industrial Revolution: