I'll
have a handout for you with both our "roster" of characters and the
specific questions with which we'll begin our discussion. We'll plan on
at least fifteen minutes for each of the three "sections" of our
overall conversation. We'll take time for introductions at the start of
each of the three panels.
The Industrial Revolution: Beginnings
Jethro Tull
Robert Bakewell
John Kay
Eli Whitney
James Watt
Robert Fulton
John McAdam
Richard Trevithick
Questions for this first panel:
- What do you think was the most important cause of the Industrial Revolution?
- Why England?
- Was industrialization inevitable? If so, why don't we see it outside Europe at this time?
- Was increased population a cause or an effect of the Industrial Revolution? Explain.
- Would the world have been better off without the shift from an agrarian to an industrial outlook in much of the world?
- Which development was the most crucial to the Industrial Revolution?
- Which of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution most affects us today?
The Industrial Revolution: Effects
Elizabeth Caskell
William Cooper
Ned Ludd
Michael Thomas Sadler
victim of cholera outbreak
Birmingham coal miner
Francis Cabot Lowell
Lucy Larcom
Questions for this second panel:
- Industrialization: Was it worth it? Why or why not?
- Was the effect of the Industrial Revolution the same on men and women?
- Which affected life the most: the French Revolution or the Industrial Revolution?
- How much of the suffering and difficulties of the Industrial Revolution could have been easily prevented?
- Was greed the primary cause of the revolution's negative impacts?
- What, if anything, could reasonably have been done to improve the lives of workers and citizens during the time of the Industrial Revolution?
- How did the Industrial Revolution change society?
The Industrial Revolution: Responses
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Thomas Malthus
John Stuart Mill
Robert Owen
Charles Fourier
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Questions for this third panel:
- To what extent was "your" work a reaction to the Industrial Revolution?
- In your mind, was the Industrial Revolution positive or negative? Why?
- How could the negative effects of industrialization been minimized?
- What should be the relationship between the workers and the factory owners?
- Are their ethical and/or human rights issues at stake here in the Industrial Revolution?
- How and when should government intervene in the affairs of business?
- Did the Industrial Revolution cause an increase in global inequality? Why or why not?
- What are the most lasting impacts of the Industrial Revolution?
Please
start your reading in Chapter 26 with Section 1, "Reforming the
Industrial World." (pp. 747 - 750) The quiz will be true/false.
No
hurry to get started, but your Cartoons: Industrialization and
Imperialism assignment is due on Wednesday, December 17th. Directions are
on yesterday's blog.
