The Industrial Revolution and British Society

1993 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
British Society

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Nick Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
British Society ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Subsequent Growth ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Uk

In common with its companion volume - Soldiers as Workers – Class, employment, conflict and the nineteenth century military (2016), this study argues that class is the primary means of understanding the topic. Focusing on rank and file soldiers it concludes that they were not a separate caste. Instead, soldiering was often just a phase in civilian working lives. The nineteenth century was overshadowed by the mass mobilisation required for the generation-long French Wars and concurrent Industrial Revolution, with emerging working-class popular politics. The chapter reviews developing working class literacy and subsequent growth of rank and file memoirs, which are an important source for this study. The chapter stresses the importance of the new barrack system in the UK and the growth of British Empire, both of which had profound consequences for British society.

scholarly journals 'The Holy Land of Industrialism': rethinking the Industrial Revolution

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 223-247
Author(s):  
Joel Moykr
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
British Society ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Technological Performance ◽  
Technological Leadership

Various explanations of Britain�s economic technological leadership between 1760 and 1850 have been proposed for many decades and have dealt with many aspects of British society: politics, natural resources, and its Empire. One of the less-discussed hypotheses places the emphasis on the quality of its workforce: the most skilled workers in Britain such as engineers, instrument-makers, and millwrights. These workers were the ones who actually put into practice the innovative blueprints and models of the inventors. On the eve of the Industrial Revolution, Britain�s high-skilled workers were superior to those anywhere else, and this difference was a critical element in its technological performance during the Industrial Revolution. The institution that produced this superior competence was British apprenticeship, which was the chief source of technical human capital in this age.

scholarly journals Religiosity in Charles Dickens’ Novel a Christmas Carol Through Genetic Structural Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S3) ◽  
pp. 2191-2195
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World View ◽  
Human Life ◽  
British Society ◽  
Structural Method ◽  
The Novel ◽  
English Society ◽  
City Of London

This study aims to examine comprehensively the meaning and the existence of religiosity in Charles Dickens’ Novel A Christmas Carol. It is a qualitative research using a structural genetic approach. The data were collected from the text of the novel and analyzed through a content analysis. The results of this study are as follows: (1) Autonomous structures of the novel such plot, character, setting and theme have a coherent as a whole and are interconnected to describe the problem of religiosity in the novel A Christmas Carol which indicate transformation of religiosity such as religious belief, religious practices and religious values to improve the quality of human life. (2) Social structure of English Society in Industrial Revolution indicates its significance in describing social context of English society in the novel of A Christmas Carol. Such as, the problem of population density, low labor salaries, the high cost of daily living in the City of London, and the degradation of religiosity in the British Society. (3) The author’s world view indicates the need of change of man’s religiosity through his or her affection of social and religious experience to recover the meaning and the application of religiosity in human life especially in the aspect of solidarity. religiosity based on structural genetics, the autonomous structure of the novel A Christmas Carol, the social structure of British society during the Industrial Revolution, and the worldview of the author has a unified whole to prove that there is a homologous relationship between social reality, especially religions of British society during the Industrial Revolution

The Social Causes of the British Industrial Revolution

1968 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 123-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Perkin
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
British Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Causes

‘It is not more than seventy or eighty years since,’ wrote ‘A Member of the Manchester Athenaeum’ in 1844, ‘that a few humble mechanics in Lanarkshire, distinguished by scarcely anything more than mechanical ingenuity and perseverance of character, succeeded in forming a few, but important mechanical combinations, the effect of which has been to revolutionize the whole of British society, and to influence, in a marked degree, the progress of civilization in every quarter of the globe.’

scholarly journals Jane Austen's View on the Industrial Revolution in Pride and Prejudice

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Aralia Heaverly ◽  
Elisabeth Ngestirosa EWK
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
British Society ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Inheritance System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Landed Gentry ◽  
The Town

This study dismantles Jane Austen’s view in Pride and Prejudice novel triggered by the social systems in British society. The society influenced by the phenomena of the industrial revolution in England in the late eighteenth century revealed the social system. This study aims to find out how Jane Austen views the revolution of the industry in British society. By having the focus on the sociology of literature, this study applies Lucien Goldman’s genetic structuralism. By the dialectical method, the study found that in Austen’s view the landed gentry system and inheritance system was adopted to measure the social class among the societies. Jane Austen thought the inheritance system as the fallacious practice in the society as the economic condition motivated British parents to apply matchmaking for their children to get a better life. Jane Austen views that the industrial revolution plays an important role in forming social occupation at that time. The working-class condition leads them to work in the town, while the upper-class society tends to open some businesses by doing trade at the town. The rest group of middle class tends to work and dedicate themselves to the rich people. Finally, Jane Austen puts her view toward the society in Pride and Prejudice.Keywords: author, class, genetic structuralism, the industrial revolution, view

The Industrial Revolution and British Society.

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 416
Author(s):  
N. F. R. Crafts ◽  
Patrick K. O'Brien ◽  
Roland Quinault
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
British Society

1. Then and now

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Robert C. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
British Society ◽  
Economic Evolution ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Two Sides

‘Industrial Revolution’ refers to the far reaching transformation of British society that occurred between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries. The Industrial Revolution saw great progress, but it also brought poverty. ‘Then and now’ considers the two sides of the Industrial Revolution and how it was the culmination of two centuries of economic evolution. This was due to a set of revolutions that reinforced each other: in technology, agriculture, commerce, transportation, and finance combined with population and urban growth, resulting in a long run increase in GDP. But why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Britain: the rise of capitalism or England’s political and legal systems?

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