02560nam a2200385Ia 4500 261132 OCoLC 20210622062840.0 011219s2002 cauab b 001 0 eng 2001008418 073770926X (pbk. : alk. paper) 0737709308 (hardback : alk. paper) 0737709278 (hardback : alk. paper) DLC DLC C#P XY4 pcc e------ e-uk--- PUXA ev HC52.5 .I53 2002 330.9034 I421 21 The industrial revolution Brenda Stalcup, book editor. San Diego, Calif. Greenhaven Press Detroit Thomson/Gale c2002. 269 p. ill., map 23 cm. Turning points in world history Local 182063 Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index. The start of the industrial revolution: Causes of the industrial revolution in Britain -- Spread of the industrial revolution to Europe -- Americans debate the merits of industrialization -- United States imports the industrial revolution -- Birth of the factory -- Rise of the company town -- The great innovators of the industrial revolution: Eli Whitney and the cotton gin -- Robert Fulton and the steamboat -- Cyrus McCormick and the mechanical reaper -- Samuel Morse and the telegraph -- Thomas Edison and the electrical lighting system -- Henry Ford and the automobile -- Laborers and robber barons: Industrial revolution lowered laborers' standard of living -- Industrial revolution raised laborers' standard of living -- Rise of organized labor -- Indictment of the robber barons -- Defense of the robber barons -- The impact of the industrial revolution: Increase in black migration and foreign immigration to industrial centers -- Relationship between industrialization and urban pollution -- Mechanization of farming -- Effect of labor-saving devices on housework -- Industrial revolution's effect on education. Economic history 1750-1918. 90024 Technological innovations Europe History. Local 177420 Working class Europe History. Local 190641 Industrialists Europe History. Local 114469 Inventors Europe History. Local 115893 Industrial revolution Local 114458 Europe Economic conditions 1789-1900. LEMB 47709 Stalcup, Brenda Local 173698 Turning points in world history (Greenhaven Press) 187943 187943 0 0 ddc 0 330_903400000000000_I421 0 evl 176657 10 10 1 2016-05-27 Gumdrop 25.95 367651 0 330.9034 I421 80000002161290 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:261132 6