IR Flashcards
Industrialism
A system based on the use of machines rather than on animal or human power
Agricultural revolution
Sweeping changes in farming
Enclosure movement
Parliament allowed large landowners to fence off common lands
Textile
Rotating crops on three fields (instead of two) to keep soil fertile
Crop rotation
Cottage Industry” workers produced cloth which merchants sold from cottage to cottage. These cloth made products are called:
Socialism
A method of production that brought machines and workers together in one place
Spinning jenny
TOTAL control of an industry
Flying shuttle
An association of workers with the same skills that united to improve rights and conditions
Steam engine
Refusal to work
Monopoly
The belief that society should own and control means of production
Mass production
A machine that sped up the weaving process
Strike
Made it possible to spin cotton into thread very quickly
Interchangeable parts
Replaced water power with steam power
Assembly line
The manufacturing of huge quantities of identical goods at cheap prices
Trade union
Machine made parts that are exactly alike
