TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stalcup,Brenda
TI  - The industrial revolution
T2  - Turning points in world history
SN  - 073770926X (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HC52.5 .I53 2002
U1  - 330.9034 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - San Diego, Calif., Detroit
PB  - Greenhaven Press, Thomson/Gale
KW  - Economic history
KW  - 1750-1918
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Local
KW  - Working class
KW  - Industrialists
KW  - Inventors
KW  - Industrial revolution
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1789-1900
KW  - LEMB
N1  - 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
ER  -