Transcript Bell Work (2/24)

Bell Work (2/24)
• Development and Industrialization
• Do these terms mean the same thing?
• Identify characteristics that define each term
• Consider:
• What is it like to live in a developed place?
• What is it like to live in an industrialized place?
Industrialization
• The process by which economic activities evolved
from producing primary goods to factories that mass
produce goods
• Industrial Revolution – series of improvements in
industrial technology that transformed the process
of manufacturing goods
Before the IR
• Industry was dispersed across landscape
• People made household tools/agricultural equipment in
their homes or obtained them in the local village
• Home-based manufacturing – cottage industry
• While watching the clip, write down
advantages/disadvantages of home-based manufacturing
• Consider: Workload, Supervision, Productivity, Social
Interaction
Industrialization
• Factory system – manufacturing goods in a central
location
• While watching the clip, write down
advantages/disadvantages of the factory system
• Consider: Workload, Supervision, Productivity, Social
Interaction
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfGs2Y5WJ14
Industrial Revolution
• Steam engine (1769) was the invention that began
the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom in
the 1700s
• Steam engine could:
• Constantly heat ovens
• Be located away from water source as energy because it
ran on coal
Industrial Revolution
continued
• Unprecedented expansion in productivity
• Substantially higher standards of living
• Principal cause of population growth in Stage 2 of
DTM
• Resulted not only in industrial transformations but
new social, economic and political inventions
• Gradual diffusion of ideas over time
Traditional Industrial Regions
• Europe
• UK, Germany, Russia, Spain
• North America
• Northeast, Middle Atlantic, Pittsburgh, Western Great
Lakes, Southern California
• Asia
• Japan, South Korea, China
What is the hearth?
What historic patterns can you identify?
What can you observe from this map in terms of where the majority of
manufacturing takes place? Do you see this changing at all today? Is this at all
indicative of anything economic?
Why is industrial center towards Moscow and not more in the center of the
region? Why were people drawn to these locations?
What is so essential about the East Asia manufacturing center? Why is it so
successful? Why is it so remarkable that Japan is successful?