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Industrialrevolution
industrial revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| land | natural resources, especially coal and cotton, and area necessary for industrialization |
| labor | factor of production that refers to the people needed to work in factories, came from rural farms and were educated enough to work with machines |
| capital | money that is necessary for a factory or industrialization to begin-factor of production |
| assembly line production | making goods by having each worker do one specific job before passing the good on to another worker; increases production, decreases the need for skilled labor, and makes cheaper goods |
| children in factories | employed to exploit their small size, cheap labor, ease of replacement when hurt, and manager's ability to force them to work long hours or face being beaten |
| urbanization | the process of growth of cities (often due to industrialization and enclosure movement) |
| enclosure movement | process of consolidating many small farms into larger farms that were cultivated with machinery. caused a loss of agricultural jobs and urbanization |
| tenements | run-down apartment buildings often used to house the factory workers who had moved to the cities |
| middle class | growing economic group when a country industrializes since managers and some higher-level workers are needed in factories |
| pollution | increases during the industrialization due to increased fossil fuel consumption and few regulations on factors |
| Adam Smith | writer of "The Wealth of Nations" and promoter of the economic system of capitalism |
| Socialism | economic system in which the government gets involved to help decrease the difference between the rich and the poor by taxing the rich more than the poor |
| Capitalism | Economic system in which the government largely stay outs of the economy. there is not movement of money between the rich and the poor to help equalize their resources. All they may do is created some rules to ensure fair trade. |
| Communism | Economic system in which the government takes completed control of the economy and tries to create economic equality for all |
| Karl Marx | Writer of the "Communist Manifesto" which argued that history was defined by the fighting between economic classes and that the rich always took advantage of the poor; advocated communism |