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When did the industrial revolution begin in Great Britain?
1760
Diffusion of the Industrial revolution:
What did Britain lead the way in?
-Transportation
(Ships and trains)
Consequences of the Industrial revolution
-increased food production; population growth
-migration from rural to urban
-large farm proliferation is rewarded
Malthusian Catastrophe
when the amount of food is too little to sustain the number of people.
New social and spatial forms
-New social classes and relations
New division of labor
-Mass production and assembly line “deskilling”
-Division of labor and gender
-work vs home life and uniformity
-Workers only learn one thing and then become very replaceable as a consequence
International competition for resources
-Great Britain and India
-Berlin conference/scramble for Africa
International competition for markets
-foreign markets and the international division of labor
Developed Country
has progressed further along the development continuum
Developing country
has made less than desired progress along the development continuum
-progress varies between developing countries so the UN divides them into high, medium and low developing
Development
is the process of improving the conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology
Human Development Index (HDI)
measures the level of development for a country through the combination of:
-living standards, a long healthy life, education, and access to knowledge
Developing regions of the world
Latin America, Siberia, Southwest Asia/North Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Developed regions of the world
-North America, Europe
Gross national income (GNI)
is the value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year (including money that leaves/enters the country)
Purchasing power parity (PPP)
is the adjustment made to the GNI to account for differences among countries in the cost of goods and services
Gross domestic product (GDP)
the value of the output goods and services produced in a country in a year (does not include money that leaves/enters the country)
Primary sector
includes extracting materials from the earth by mining, fishing, farming, forestry, hunting/gathering, and nomadic herding.
-3% US jobs
-paid less/mostly in deving countries
Secondary sector
includes manufacturing: processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials into products.
-industry
Tertiary sector
includes the provision of goods and services to people in exchange for payment: retailing, banking, law, education, and government. Examples: marketing, loans, repairs, waiting, tables, entertainment, tourism, teaching
-80% of U.S. jobs
Quaternary sector
-Deals with money and processing of information
-Examples of these types of jobs are banking, insurance, and real estate
Quinary sector
The upper echelon- presidents and kings n kick
Quinary sector
Jobs that deal with decision-making and leadership
-executives, government officials, school principals
Productivity
is the value of the product compared with the amount of labor needed to make it
-Developed countries can produce more with less effort: access to tractors
-Developed: more productivity
Years of schooling
the number of years the average over 25 has spent in school
-Developed countries: 12.2 year avg
-Developing countries: 7.3 year avg
Expected years of schooling for today’s youth
the number of years that the UN expects an average 5 year old will spend in school.
-Developed countries: 16.4 years (half of 5 year olds graduate college)
-Developing countries: 10.1 years
Gender Development Index (GDI)
Indicator that measures the gender gap
Gender Inequality Index (GII)
Indicator that measures the gender gap in the level of achievement in three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment, and the labor market
labor-intensive industry
is an industry in which wages and other compensation paid to employees constitute a high percentage of expenses.
-$35 per hour for developed, less than $2 in China/India
Post-Fordist production
is often used to describe flexible production. This organizes workers into teams that perform a variety of tasks and solve problems through consensus (computer literacy, college degrees)