| Journal 13. (2021)
It would also appear that, so called, industrial revolution triggered or cemented the reset. However, Industrial Revolution started in England a century before it spread to America. In article on Industrial Revolution in Europe, we find this information:
"The industrial revolution in Europe didn\'t happen overnight but only spread over the continent very gradually. One of the triggers was the unusually high growth in the population which set in around the middle of the 18th century and produced a gigantic reservoir of workers. At the same time new, more efficient methods of production became necessary in order to supply the basic needs of so many people. In this situation Great Britain enjoyed two important advantages: an extremely productive and wealthy agricultural system, and an astonishing number of creative inventors. This was why the United Kingdom dictated the rhythm of progress to the rest of Europe from 1750 onwards for the next century or so.
The first spinning frames were created on the British Isles. These were followed by mechanical weaving looms, and it was not long before textile factories were shooting out of the ground. At the same time a boom in the iron industry broke out. As soon as people discovered how to turn coal into coke iron manufacturers had excellent, almost unlimited reserves of fuel at their disposal with which to process iron ore. Once steam engines were introduced to heat the furnace ovens more quickly and effectively, the skylines in the coal regions were quickly covered in colliery towers and the chimney stacks of iron works.
Workers poured into the new industrial centres and in a few years villages exploded into major cities: here the masses were forced to live under appalling conditions in crowded slums and damp cellars. Working hours were around 14 hours a day and the workers were slaves to the rhythm of the machines. Women were expected to work just as hard for less pay, especially in the collieries and textile factories. Children too were unscrupulously exploited. The workers lived in constant fear of unemployment and hunger. Their desperation often exploded into bloody acts of rebellion. Machine-breakers tried in vain to put a brake on developments, but the new inventions fitted together like cogs in a wheel. Improved steel production led to more rails with which to transport steel steam locomotives drawing wagons full of coke and steel."
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN EUROPE
https://www.erih.net/how-it-started/the-industrial-revolution-in-europe/
History of The Industrial Revolution!
"The term “Industrial Revolution” was coined by Auguste Blanqui, a French economist, in 1837 to denote the economic and social changes arising out of the transition from industries carried in the homes with simple instruments, to industries in factories with power-driven machinery in Britain, but it came into vogue when Arnold Toynbee, the great historian, used it in 1882."
However, historians question the appropriateness of the term on the ground that the Industrial Revolution covers a period far too long to justify a single label. The period is from about 1740 to about 1850 in Britain and from 1815 to the end of the nineteenth century in Europe.
Moreover, the term “Revolution” is misleading for describing a complicated series of forces, processes and discoveries which worked very slowly but gradually and created a new economic organization. It is contended that it is better to call it evolution and not revolution.
It is also suggested that instead of calling it the Industrial Revolution, it should be called “The Transition of Industrialism”. In spite of these objections, the term industrial Revolution is preferred and is in common usage.
Up to the middle of eighteenth century, European society was mainly agricultural. Whatever industries there were, were confined to the “domestic” sphere. There was no machinery or water- power or steam to work those industries."
There are many unanswered questions this period of human history begs for like, why was the magnificent architecture of that period destroyed? Who build those extremely complicated structures and why, all with primitive tools? Today, we have modern power tools but less durable building instead. See the paradox? Why don\'t we know more about this period? Another question is how did Industrial Revolution trigger the reset? What was the reset?
The progress of innovation led to changes in how society would see their place in it. You could say; it transformed social understanding of governance, education, responsibility and duty to those that were used up to make the transitory changes possible but not in a straight and clean way. Another century of experimentation would pass before reset delivered a better world to masses. This is why "slavery" all of a sudden became abhorrent to them. World embraced these changes as a progressive modernism that quickly spread thru more prosperous countries but a lot slower in less prosperous countries of the world. So, from feudalistic way of thinking, we moved into a more responsible way of thinking however, the poor still remain discriminated against to this day. What changes can we expect in the next reset?
Why it’s beginning in England?
"Political and economic conditions in England in the latter half of the eighteenth century were the most suitable for the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in that country. It enriched her and gave her a lead over all other European countries. It spread to the main Continent of Europe and further abroad almost fifty years later." points the article of "History of The Industrial Revolution" written by Mamta Aggarwal |
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