World History › Section U · Life and labor in the industrial world › Topic U.1
Inventions, innovation, and mechanization
In the late 1800s machines spread from cotton mills into almost every trade, and factories began to pour out cheap consumer goods. This topic follows what mechanisation did to work, to homes and to the working-class family.
In this topic
- Machines in every trade
- Mass production
- Deskilling and discipline
- Long hours and insecure pay
- Danger and industrial disease
- Worked example: why choose the factory?
- Cheaper goods and food
- Germs, medicine and longer lives
- Electricity and the home
- Worked example: the changing working-class family
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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