The Industrial Revolution

Part I of Essay
was a time of drastic change. This was the transformation from hand tools and hand made items, to machine manufactured and mass-produced goods. " Industrial Revolution, the shift, at different times in different countries, from a traditional agriculturally based economy to ....

Part II of Essay
.... working conditions. In the eighteenth century a series of inventions transformed the manufacture of cotton in England and gave rise to a new mode of production - the factory system. During these years, other branches of industry effected comparable advances, and all these together, mutually reinforcing one another, made possible further gains on an ever-widening front. Economies prior to were based on cottage industries. Workers would buy raw materials from merchants, take it back to their cottages, (this led to the name) and produce th ....