Industrialization
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Industrialization (or Industrialisation, also called Industrial Revolution) is a process that happens in some societies. It is a kind of change that happens.
It is part of a modernisation process. Using better techology, it becomes possible to produce more goods in a shorter amount of time. A single person can produce more things. They will also do more specialised things. Before industrialisation, a shoemaker produced the whole shoe. He worked on one pair of shoes, finished that, and then did the next pair of shoes. With industrialisation, there are many people involved in making shoes. An individual shoemaker has a smaller task, however. There is one person that cuts the sole of the shoe. Another person stitches it on. In short there is division of labour.
Industrialisation started in England in the late 18th and early 19th century. There were several base techologies involved.
- There were advances in cotton spinning. This led to many cotton mills in the 1780s.
- James Watt invented a new steam engine. This could be applied to drive machines using water and fire.
- Advances in iron founding
The industrial revolution also had drawbacks. A new social class emerged. These people were very poor, all they had was their labour they could sell to work in a factory. There were also other problems: child labour was common.
