IR1+D+Notes

Chapter 1 • Before the revolution women and men both had equal labor • Paying for what the worker produced allowed businessmen to accumulate capital – the money that later could be invested in factories • Agriculture was improving • Families totally depended on agriculture and spinning for their living • Slaves, farming, and small jobs • Most ppl still lived in rural areas • Growing cash crops such as cotton tobacco rum sugar and tea • Slavery still existed • Selling slaves was a business • Weaving at home • Used a plant called flax • Women weaved at home • Water frame • Jenny and mule • Power loom • Rural revolution • Landowners began fencing off common land • Caused the common people who owned no land to hire themselves a laborers because they could not feed their livestock • Went cities • Merchants played a key role in linking producers and consumers • There are 5 main types of ppl involved in the local manufactories • The Manufacturer (weaver or draper) • The Dyer • The Fuller (cleaned shrunk, and thickened cloth) • The Finisher (Cut the cloth with shears) • The Shearer • The workers wanted to be able to be enlightened • Before 1760 most of the artisan favored their own houses • As new machines were invented, there began to be less jobs (such as home weaving) • The revolution changed the way of working