Industrial Revolution
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- Industrial Revolution
- Religion and empiricism
- protestant work ethic
- Weber
- encouraged production/growth among workers
- protestantism more focused on "materialistic joy" than "ecclesiastical piety
- protestant notion you can't buy your way into heaven/atone using acts so attend to earthly life
- Weber
- empiricism in science and philosophy
- Paduan Aristotelianism u/s science more and don't use God as ultimate explanation
- ppl spent more time thinking about how to improve production techniques not just God all the time
- Evaluation
- changed patterns of consump/prod bc ppl + enthusiastic about buying things and spending their extra cash
- contributed to Fordism bc + produced and + tech to accommodate that
- Darwinism = empiricist study leading to Postmod. link between Xianity and prod not here anymore
- Wiseman and Young: "there is robust evidence of a negative association between a measure of religious belonging and productive entrepreneurship"
- protestant work ethic
- Technological Advances
- Technology and factories
- move from basic, agrarian economy reliant on animal/man power to prosperous economy reliant on dev/sci prog
- Landes: tech triggered "cumulative, self-sustaining advance in technology whose repercussions would be felt in all aspects of economic life"
- (Landes) tech developed cyclically, one enhanced another which later enhanced the first
- Evaluation
- inc productivity, output, speed of change; people produced more goods, faster, of better quality
- more affordable/desirable goods ppl bought more
- contrib to Fordism bc emph on productivity and inc output, e.g. conveyor belt
- tech lucrative sector, always evolving e.g. iPhone X facial recog, repeat of this transition changing lanscape of soc
- Fossil fuels
- demand increased to power machinery
- factories along coal threads, communities built around those
- infrastructre shaped to provide easy transportation from coal mining areas to big inner cities
- Evaluation
- more prod possible bc of FF, e.g. cars. consume + bc + available
- contrib to Fordism bc production line & factories
- contemp rev away from FF, pressure to switch to renewable energies (closure of mines) BUT big environ impact
- Technology and factories
- Class
- Marx & Weber: class structure key
- Comte on feudal econ: "a kind of subordination that subjected the labouring men to the idle and devouring men"
- deteriorated w/ rise of bourgeouisie, signalling changing hands of class power
- Evaluation
- free labour, living wages, growing infl/auth of mid-class in working environs
- Thierry: "industry will disarm power, by causing the desertion of its satellies, who will find more profit in free and honest labour than in the profession of slaves guarding slaves"
- management class in Fordism = new job opps and structure 4 fordist methods
- class structure still here
- Savage: "spiralling levels of inequality"
- welfate state to inc support for poor ppl provide services 4 E, prej still ingrained
- Commercial Rev preceding IR
- brought new system of prod, i.e. capitalist trade
- proto-caps outsourced textile work to poor agro workers and sold goods cheap on market to make profit
- made wider wage gap w/ proto-industrialism
- proto-caps outsourced textile work to poor agro workers and sold goods cheap on market to make profit
- Evaluation
- new prod system (capitalism) ppl make things on large scale and turn profits by paying little
- contrib to Fordism bc idea of making smth en masse and turning profits
- new gens set new goals for equality, e.g. UK election young ppl for Jezza = attempt to min class divides
- Savage: "non-governmental organisations such as Oxfam have drawn attention to the cycles of advantage transmitted across generations and pointed to the unequal opportunities that reinforce privilege"
- brought new system of prod, i.e. capitalist trade
- Marx & Weber: class structure key
- Religion and empiricism
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