urbanisation and industrialisation

Question 1

What impact did industrialisation have in society?

Answer 1

major catalyst for change and challenge because:

• undermined social and political power
• encourage urbanisation –> more ppl act together to create change/challenge traditions esp in workplace

Question 2

What is urbanisation? why did it happen?

Answer 2

move from country to town/city and growth and expansion of cities that occurred as result. This brought changed patterns of land use, population distribution and economic activities.

• less job oppo in country so move to city to seek employment
• goods and services cheaper from industrialisation in cities.

Question 3

What effect did urbanisation have?

Answer 3

• massive growth in number, size and population densities of cities
  e. g. London increase by 5 times the size at beginning of 19th century
• housing built cheaply, quickly and without sewerage, garbage and other services needed to support it.

Question 4

Why did the growth of urbanisation create problems?

Answer 4

• coal fires polluted atmosphere

- spread of disease

Question 5

What did the housing reflect?

Answer 5

the nature and location of housing reflect division between social classes

Question 6

Industrialisation

Answer 6

production of goods using machinery rather than manual labour. industries became basis of society’s economy
By end of 19th century, western europe, undergone revolution in way ppl worked

Question 7

What happened during industrialisation?

Answer 7

in urban areas:

• factories replace home as place of production
• machinery replace manual labour
• work became more specialised
• productivity increased and more efficient

Question 8

Impact of industrialisation towards European powers:

Answer 8

industrial skills provided military, medical and communication technology, which led to success in imperial expansion of major European Powers.
improve their political, economic, social influence throughout world

Question 9

What happened between the two industrial giants?

Answer 9

Britain and Germany

compete for technological dominance and economic/colonial power from it

Question 10

What did industrialisation stimulate?

Answer 10

technological innovation

• electricity - new power source in factories and tramcars
• steam train - electric ones in 1900 led to growth of underground railways

Question 11

What happened to those nations not industrialised?

Answer 11

in most areas of world, industrial power was limited or non existant
countries that had not begun to industrialise or slow progress suffer from changing balance of power.

Question 12

What did the power, influence, capacity to improve living standards depend on in any country?

Answer 12

• extent/nature of industries
• technological advances
• degree of commitment to modernisation

Question 13

Working conditions? industrialistion

Answer 13

• crowded
• limited protection
• no warning signs
• limited machinery protection
• gender specific jobs

Question 14

Women and Children in workplace ?

Answer 14

• child labour
• dangerous working conditions
• greater profit at expense of children
• no protection
• gender specific jobs and roles

Question 15

Urbanisation?

Answer 15

• overcrowded

- poor living conditions