Transcript The Modern World Begins Unit 2012-2013

L4: Revolutionary Changes in Social Life:
Changes in the Meaning of Work
Agenda
Objective:
To understand…
1. What working conditions were like in
the factory system.
2. How these working conditions differed
from what work was like under the
domestic system
3. How and why working conditions
became a means of controlling workers
both physically, psychologically, and
morally.
4. How the meaning of work changed for
both workers and employers under the
factory system.
Schedule:
1. Catch up / Questions fro Last Class!
2. Discussion: Work in the Factory System
Homework:
1. Please see unit
schedule. No
modifications to
homework
assignments at
this time.
REMINDER: First
process check in
due Friday!
Catching Up
• How did things go yesterday?
• Any questions regarding the French
Revolution?
What is Modernity?
• Consider the
changes/ideals/
structures/values
brought about the
Industrial Revolution
and the French
Revolution together:
What is Modernity?
Modern World History
• The world ushered in
by these two
revolutions is the
subject matter for our
course this year.
• The ideals, structures,
values, and beliefs
brought forth by these
revolutions become the
dominant ideals, structures,
values, and beliefs of the modern era
• Our project for the year is to understand how these ideals,
structures, values, and beliefs have shifted and changed over
the course of modern world history.
Where We Go From Here
• This unit will look at how these
ideals, structures, values, and
beliefs took shape during the
Industrial Revolution and
French Revolution.
• We will probe in greater depth
the revolutionary changes that
took place in social, economic,
and political life during this
time.
• We will “tee up” the influence
they will come to have on the
rest of modern world history.
Work in the Factory System
Discussion
Mill Clock
•
Many mills have a clock turned by the mill; close to
another clock regulated by a pendulum, and the motion
of the mill is so regular, that these two clocks will never
vary more than two or three minutes. Both are made
with dials and hands exactly alike, but one has a title on
the dial, mill time, and the other, clock time.
- The Rees Cyclopedia (1802-1820)
The Mill Clock
clock time
mill time,
as measured
by
waterwheel
Victorian clock from Pyemore Mill, near Bridport, Dorset
J.M. Richards, The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings, 109
The Factory As Machine
• Individual machines as
coordinated parts of larger,
continuously operating mechanism
– Central power source (whether water or
steam) driving all machines at coordinated
rates (allude to other forms of organization
made possible by small electric motors)
– Inherent in factory itself and reinforced by
every step of increased mechanization
What Happens to the Worker in
A Factory Machine?