Industrialization and Its Effects Technology Nature and Changing Society Industrial Revolution 10 06 2014 Similar to the computer revolution o The world functions very differently now Like the computer revolution it raises ethical questions Why is this happening and why is this happening in England How does this affect people A sustained serious of changes in the way goods are produced What does that mean for society when things are made differently For people Three Major Industries Advances in coal mining Heavy metal and steel Textiles o Cotton and wool Why Textiles in England Drive for innovation o Flying shuttle Wrap thread around and put it through the loom takes a long time manually but this makes it faster makes weaving faster Now weaving is faster than spinning the spinners cant keep up o Spinning Jenny o Power Looms Puts the pressure back on weaving Labor and Capital Enclosed Banking Raw Materials and Markets o You need someone to sell you the product and you need people to buy the product o Buying unprocessed material that gets sold to England where they make the fabric they sell it at home o Africa is not just a place to get slaves it s a place where you can sell things as well Free Market Ideology o Adam smith o The individual entrepreneur will do better now government will stay out of the way and they will not intervene The government is also keeping people out of the way of entrepreneurs o France outlaws guilds Railways o Was first primarily for the betterment of business Coal mine to coal processor to shipping o Then facilitates the transfer of people o Leads to census of national identity o Things get better industrialization helps them and they get access to better things fresh food trains there socioeconomic position gets better Working classes o In the long run it will help but in the short run its horrible its disastrous tenements and densely populated areas Loss of skill and creativity New Economic Unit From family to individual o Children in mines are useful they get into little places o The first workplace protection legislation is children need to be atleast 6 and work 15 hours Social Effects Middle Classes Romanticism Nature and the People Technology Nature and Changing Society Reaction Romanticism Natural New Spirituality Balanced Reason Rebellion and Conflict Individual against society Geist Spirit of an Age National History Volk Grimm Brothers middle class 10 06 2014 people o True spirit of what s going on can be found with the common o The common people have things of value to share o The stories that people are telling us are important and they need to be recorded Neo Gothic Architecture Bizarre and Unusual o The enlightenment is focused on moving into the light and the romantics think that darkness is in the world Romantics William Wordsworth Tintern Abbey o Right before you fall asleep is when you see most clearly o Need to be aware of the peripheral o Pantheism New idea on how to find the divine Not organized religion churches or rules of theology Pan means everywhere God is everywhere God is in the trees grass everywhere Disembodied god Look for God and you will find God esp in nature You find God in church because everything in a gothic cathedral reminds you of the woods Percy Bysshe Shelley o Married Mary Shelley Frankenstein Her mother was a feminists who died Raised by father When she s 16 she runs off with Percy Who is married At one point Mary and Percy s wife are pregnant at the same time Soon after Mary and Percy are together Story writing contest on a rainy day Frankenstein The story of someone who is pursing science doesn t eat doesn t sleep never thinks of the ramification Through a process Mary Shelly does not outline in the story Frankenstein creates a living creature What are Frankenstein s responsibility for his creation Creature has a yearning for communication Lives under a families house and teaches himself the language Goes to Frankenstein and says that as a being he needs companionship he cant live in this society and asks Frankenstein to make him a mate they will either go to the really high mountains or South America Frankenstein says yes then decides not too so the creature kills everyone Frankenstein loves and Frankenstein spends the last of his short life chasing the creature He pursued science with blinders on Costs are very high Dangers of imbalance Ludwig Von Beethoven o Music is expression of emotion Romantics and Revolution Greece 1821 French Restoration 1815 Bourbons back on the throne Ancient Greece o Liked the idea of Ancient Greece o They didn t all work though Lord Byron Ottoman Turks Revolutionary Ideals 19th Century Age of Liberalism Economics and Politics o These are people who want small government support of business staying out of the way and letting things develop Rights bearing citizen and revolutions Workers o You need the masses o Its all about the masses o They have the potential to rise up Industrialization and the Social Question Changing in working conditions Change in living conditions Proletarianization o Becoming a proletariat o Becoming a working class Role of government The Social Question Three Responses Social novel o Middle class writers trying to get middle class people to care about the working class o Class issues Utopian Socialism o Charles Fourier Harmony o Algorithm of who you belong with Worker Unrest o Massacre of Transonian street o The machines are the problem and if only we could break the machines and go back o Sabot Wooden shoes thrown into machine to break it Sabotage Liberalism Rights and the Revolutionary Century 10 06 2014 The Long 19th Century Revolutions 1789 French 1917 Russian 1815 The Bourbon Restoration Louis XVIII Charles X o Not a likeable kind of guy Constitutional Monarchy 1830 Revolution Returns Les Mis Louis Philippe Bourgeois King o Brothers after Marie Antoinette and husband and son o A cousin o To be Bourgeois is to be middle class and possibly boring o A middle class king is an oxymoron o Create the idea that he is one with the people o Carries an umbrella middle class men carried umbrella one with the people Building Barricades Trying to block the narrow little streets to keep the army away Signs of revolution People who made the revolution happen look at the aftermath they took the risk they did all the work It was about sharing power they didn t get any They re thinking about change Leads to the year of revolutions 1848 Year of Revolutions liberals