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 * Pace of Change:**

-Mechanization Mechanization is when you provide human workers with machinery to help them cope with the physical requirements of the job that they are doing. For example, if people were digging a ditch it would take a very long time to dig a ditch by hand but if you had a bulldozer it would make the job a whole bunch easier. Mechanization makes work a lot easier for humans and it also makes thing get done faster which can mean that products are made faster. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/371959/mechanization -Innovation Innovation is improving something that already exists. This also had to do with mechanization because when they improved or innovated the process of different thing they usually added machines to makes thing easier so they could go faster and make more products. That is why innovation was big in the industrial revolution. 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation and http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/innovation -Units Per Man Hour Units Per Man hour is the amount of work that one person does in an hour of work. This was used in the industrial revolution to keep track of all of the things made and also to be able to predict to how many things the whole factory could make in a day, week, month, or year. This helped the factories because they could set up shipments before all of the things had been made. It also helped to know because many of the factories paid people by the hour so they wanted to make as much stuff as they could make in one hour so they could get their moneys worth. One example of making as much stuff as you can in a little amount of time is an assembly line. Before assembly lines one person would have to do all of the jobs but on an assembly line one person does one job and then that person gets really good at it so things get made really fast. http://www.smartkpis.com/kpi-key-performance-indicator/units-per-man-hour-443.html
 * Social Change:**

-Agricultural Revolution The Agricultural Revolution was when there was a lot of increase in the productivity of farms because of the new technologies that were used to farm. One of these new technologies was the tractor. The tractor helped with many things such as plowing and planting. Before the tractor the people would have to lead oxen around to plow and they would have to go out with bags of seed or grain and plant all of the seeds by hand. The new technologies were like this and helped with many farming jobs so that you could jobs more easily and faster so that the rate of production on the farms go up by a lot. Many of the things in the industrial revolution were trying to make jobs quicker and more easy.http://inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/a/AgriculturalRev.htm -Factory Work Factory work in the Industrial Revolution was not a good thing. People worked a seven or six day week under harsh conditions for more than 10 hours a day for little money. Many of the jobs that the people did were dangerous and many of the workers were children and young people. One of the bad places to work was in the fabric factories because under the mechanic looms some of the fabric from the wool that they were using would fall of and for piles underneath the machinery. While the machine was still going small children would have to climb under the machinery and clean all of the fabric out and if he put his hand or head up it would be caught in the machinery and then the child would probably die. This was a very dangerous job and there are many more as well as that one. That is why factory work was horrible for the people who were working there. http://www.galbithink.org/fw.htm -City Slum Dwelling Some people that were working in the Industrial revolution had decent jobs but thousands lived in the slums where there was little or no food and no hygiene because of the little wages that the people got for working. Some "lucky" people got to live in cellar dwelling which was like a home but if it rained the cellar would flood and there would be sewage leaking in through the walls which it not an idea place to live by my standards. What made the places that they lived even more disgusting was that people threw their waste out on the street with little or no warning. http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/housingo.htm


 * Economic Migration:**

-Rural to Urban Migration In the industrial revolution was when there started to make more and more factories they needed to get people to work in the factories. So because there were so many farms they promised high wages so people would come and work but then the dropped the wages, but the people couldn't leave because they had nowhere to go. In England and America the economies went from largely agricultural to largely industrial. For the people who stayed farming it got a lot easier and they got paid a lot more while the people in the factories got paid little amounts. learning.londonmet.ac.uk/busdev/hq1001nc/ecdl/**migration**.doc -Pull Factors of the Industrial Cities Some of the pull factors of industrial cites were money, housing and goods. The factories promised high wages even though most of the time they got paid very little wages so that the people who owned the factories got a lot more money and became rich. Adequate housing was promised too and some people did get good housing and cellar dwellings were okay, but lots of people did live on the street, where poverty and disease were a major problem. Goods were things that the factories produced. When the factories started making things they became much cheaper so they were more affordable. When you lived out in the country it was hard to get things at all but when you live in the city you could walk down the street and get anything. http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01419/citygrowthtext.html -Push factors of the

Some of the push factors of the Agricultural revolution were lack of jobs, not enough money, and no opportunity. In the agricultural revolution when they made easier ways to do jobs on the farm so some farmers bought more land so there was less and less land and in farming you need a lot of land if you want. Having not enough money was also a result of the land. If you did not have a lot of land then technically speaking you did not have a lot of money and in the industrial factories they promised money. The people had little opportunity because all of the land was being bought up so they had no or little chances to start a farm or other businesses in the country.

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