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The Industrial Revolution transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system. New machines, new power sources, and new ways of organizing work made existing industries more productive and efficient.
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The Industrial Revolution in Britain
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The Industrial Revolution
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In the age of industry
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The Industrial Revolution and its impact on Australia
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Documenting the Industrial Revolution
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Causes of the Industrial Revolution
From 1700 until the beginning of the First World War in 1914, a period of great social, political and economic upheaval unfolded across the globe. There are many contributing factors that made the Industrial Revolution possible. In this programme we focus on the agricultural revolution, the rise of the factory, the invention of the steam engine, and the role of Britain's empire.
Source: ClickView, 2014, Rated E, Duration 16:35, URL: https://online.clickview.com.au/libraries/videos/3926454/causes-of-the-industrial-revolution
Coal, Steam and the Industrial Revolution
In which John Green wraps up revolutions month with what is arguably the most revolutionary of modern revolutions, the Industrial Revolution. While very few leaders were beheaded in the course of this one, it changed the lives of more people more dramatically than any of the political revolutions we've discussed.
Source: YouTube, 2012, Crash Course, Duration 11:04, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c&feature=youtu.be
Impacts of the Industrial Revolution
The time period is notorious for its dangerous factory conditions, lack of worker and child labour rights, and for overcrowded, unsanitary and polluted cities. As a result, protests and new laws improved labour and environmental issues, though problems still exist today.
Source: ClickView, 2014, Rated E, Duration 17:05, URL: https://online.clickview.com.au/libraries/videos/3716198/impacts-of-the-industrial-revolution
Living in the Industrial Revolution: The living conditions of the workers
This video explains what it was like to live in the times of the Industrial Revolution, in crowded, unsanitary slums.
Source: YouTube, 2015, Rylie McBreen, Duration 5:41, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkrvm9DEin8&feature=youtu.be
Young oyster shuckers, Port Royal, S.C., 1909, https://loc.getarchive.net/media/young-oyster-shuckers-port-royal-sc
