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Mechanization
Mechanization is either when you give human operators with machinery to help them with their jobs or when you replace humans or animal workers with machinery. It is when you substitute hand work with machinery. An example of mechanization in the times of the Industrial Revolution is the machinery used in the cotton mills or using tractors while tending your farm instead of using oxen to plow the farm.

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Innovation
Innovation is when you improve something that already exist. It made mechanization happened. It is another word for an invention. It can also be a new idea or device. Weaving was innovated when someone invented the loom and then was innovated even more when realized that they could use a machine to make a new loom that was huge and ran mostly by itself. This meant that they could make more fabric in less time.

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Units Per Man Hour
Units per man hour is the amount of work a person can do per hour. They used it to base how much they would pay the worker so they would pay them more if they made more products and vice versa. For example, on average, if one person could make 1287.76 cookies per hour, and 100 cookies were worth a dollar, then they would be paid about $13 per hour.

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-hour



Social Change:

Agricultural Revolution
The Agricultural Revolution was a time in which inventions were used to greatly increase the net output of products. During this time, farming technology also improved as well. If it weren't for the Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution would have never happened, since there would be no one to move from the farms to the cities. Before the plow and tractor were invented, people used other materials like rakes to plow their fields. One of the inventions that caused the agricultural revolution was the tractor. It made farming much easier which allowed the farmers to produce more crop. The agricultural revolution was important to the industrial revolution because now there was more food to feed the cities, the food prices fell because there was a lot more food so the people could buy more of the things that they made in the factories and that would help the factories, and the death rate went down by a lot.

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Factory Work
Factory work is when people work in factories to mass produce a product. The people who worked in factories often had to work for long periods of time with a very short break for lunch in the middle. After they worked for so long they would also hardly get any money. An example of factory work is when people worked in factories to produce cars.


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City Slum Dwelling
Thousands of people, who were factory workers, lived in the slums. They lived on narrow alleys and roads, and human and animal waste were dumped out of windows with no warning. When it rained, the disgusting, trash-filled rivers flooded the basements that some people lived in. Most houses were shared by several families each. It was not a very nice place to live, and seemed unfair, considering the houses that the rich people lived by. It would not meet the standards of the average person today, and we doubt that a lot of people today would be able to stand the slums of the 1800s.


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Rural to Urban Migration
The Industrial Revolution raised up many factories, and those factories needed employment. Many people were kicked out of their homes to the industrial cities, but most moved to the city to earn more money. A lot of people moved to live by better standards of life, some coming from nearby towns and villages, and other times from different countries. The cities seemed to have had better resources, employment, better house conditions. But, in reality, it wasn't much better than the country-sometimes it was way worse.

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Pull Factors of the Industrial Cities
Pull factors are things about a place that make you want to move there. Some of the pull factors are money, better housing, goods, more jobs and opportunities, better transportation, education, and the urban way of life. Many of these pull factors were just promises, because most factory workers did not earn much money for their hard work, and also didn't have very nice living spaces. And although transportation was better in the city, the horses and other animals that were used for transportation left waste in the streets that had to be cleaned up by the exact same people who were lured to the city with that promise!

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Push factors of the Agricultural Revolution
Push factors are the things about a place that make someone want to leave a place and search for a better life. The pull factors of the industrial cities were the push factors of the farming villages. For example, there was a lack of jobs in the villages, whereas in the cities many, many, many people were needed to work in the factories, so it was easier to receive an occupation there. Other push factors of the British Agricultural Revolution are not enough money/poor wages, no opportunity and unemployment, famine/drought, poor living conditions, no protection against nature, no/bad schooling, and no health care. Promises made by the city, though, were not kept, so in reality, the city was no better than the farms. But it was the only place they could go because the machines were replacing too many people on the farms.

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