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The Rise of Industry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Industrialism | A system based on the use of machines rather than on animal or human power |
| Agricultural Revolution | Helped industry to take root in Great Britain |
| Enclosure movement | movement that began when parliament allowed large land owners to fence off common lands |
| Textile | Woven cloth |
| Crop rotation | Rotating crops on three fields instead of two |
| Domestic system | (Cottage industry) System in which merchants went from cottage to cottage, bringing sheep wool to workers |
| Factory system | Method of production that brought machines and machines and workers together in one place |
| Urbanization | The movement of people from rural areas to cities |
| Monopoly | Total control, of industry |
| Industrial capitalism | System based on the industrial production of goods |
| Partnerships | Involves two or more entrepreneurs-people who invest |
| Corporations | Organizations owned by stockholders who buy shares in a company |
| Trade union | An association of workers with the same skill who unite to improve wages, benefits, working conditions, and worker rights |
| Strikes | The refusal to work, in order to force the factory owners to talk with them |
| Socialism | The belief that society should control the means of production |
| Means of production | Things such as factories, land, capital, and raw materials |