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    With many flaws in this new revolution‚ does however‚ also come some positive impacts. Our time is a time of evolving‚ learning new things to share with the world‚ which the industrial revolution allows. We are learning from clocks that the spinning wheel could make cotton fibers. We use the water wheel to produce energy and as long as we have a supply of cotton our factories could grow bigger. We look at the dark side of things but in the time of the bad we have goods like making a social progress

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    evolved from horses and dirt roads to trains and steam boats‚ from imperfect and handmade objects to precise and factory-made objects. These changes influenced an environment of factories and very large cities. This big change was called The Industrial Revolution. Transportation changed from horseback riding to trains and steamboats. New roads were invented to help horse carriages travel smoother. Steamboats‚ clipper ships‚ and canals all helped travel on the water faster and easier. They also helped

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    Although the Industrial Revolution had provided families with new job opportunities and income‚ there was an awful cost that came along the way of achieving this. The employment of women and children during the Industrial Revolution represented a continuation of the preindustrial kinship. Women replaced men in factory working positions‚ as seen in the 1851 illustration of plenty of women working in a cotton mill. Although these jobs were open to women‚ they were not‚ however‚ granted gender equality

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    The Industrial Revolution had a great impact on not only Great Britain‚ but Australia as well. Wool‚ wheat and mining where just a few of the things that Australia provided during the 1800s. Australia provided Great Britain with many raw materials in the nineteenth century such as wool‚ to meet the demands of the new textile industry‚ wheat to feed the population and increase what was growing on British farms‚ metals such as gold‚ copper‚ lead‚ zinc‚ silver and tin‚ and other materials such as

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    Trade Unions had struggled to achieve the freedom to exist in the early stages of the industrial revolution. Provide a critical account of their early developments‚ noting some of the major changes in their formation and character. A trade union can be described as an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas and working conditions. They were established around the early eighteenth century and membership was low and most were from within crafting industries

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    In addition‚ the technologies created during the industrial revolution helped to spur on economic growth in a newly capitalist society. After centuries of commerce being regulated by the royal family and mercantilism restricting foreign and domestic trade‚ there was finally private ownership‚ and a freely competitive market where everyone had a chance to participate. The new market economy meant that goods were traded between people instead of everyone only satisfying their own needs and allowed

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    Industrialization (ISI) —which puts premium in strengthening the locally owned industries catering to a huge domestic market to contain dollar outflow and encourage domestic entrepreneurship (Kuruvilla‚ 1996). This strategy saw the rise of a new domestic-industrial capital elite; and expanded manufacturing sector which registered growth rates of between 11% to 14% from the late 1940’s to early 1960’s (Toussaint‚ 2006). On the downside‚ the dependence from imported capital and technology to sustain this strategy

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    Women in the early Industrial Revolution were commonly associated with domestic duties such as housekeeping‚ child rearing and nurturing‚ and household management. However‚ Industrialization helped create new modes of employment that allowed many young women to earn enough to marry o to support themselves independently. These new methods of work did present a lower skill set needed to work in them. Textile production was the starting point of the Industrial Revolution. Women and their labor were

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    PARIS‚ France — The Industrial Revolution changed the world. The Revolution took place in the 1700s and 1800s and was a time when many important technological advances were made. It made it easier for everyone to benefit from new inventions and ideas. However‚ even though technology became more common‚ many people did not have the training to use it. Technology sped up‚ but not enough people could get a good education. Since then‚ leaders have been trying to figure out how to make sure everyone gets

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    Child Labour Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution was the employment of children as workers for textile industries‚ mining industries‚ milling industries and many more. In 1788‚ more than 60% of the workforce were children employed in textile factories. Children aged as young as 5 or 6 would work for more than 12 hours a day‚ for 6 days a week. Families sent their children to work in factories‚ mills and mines because they needed the money. The average working class child in the period 1791-1850

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