...The Industrial Revolution had a significant impact on Western society and the effects were numerous and mainly positive. The Industrial Revolution began in England in the 1790’s and spread throughout Europe and eventually to America. The extensive effects of the Industrial Revolution influenced almost every aspect of daily life and human society in some way. During this time period, widespread transportation such as railroads became available and important for the movement of goods and people. Also, new social reforms came about, dealing with critical issues including that of child labor. In addition, the effects of the revolution resulted in a great improvement in living standards for many people. Although the positive affects of the Industrial Revolution were plentiful, there were also several negative affects concerning the issues of railroads, child labor, and certain living conditions. The railroads built during the Industrial Revolution allowed for widespread transportation to now be available for goods and people. Consequently, the coal burned in train engines created great pollution resulting in an unhealthy and dangerous environment for the people. In addition, as European governments became involved with the creation of railroads, taxes increased resulting in the lower classes experiencing greater burdens. Despite these negative repercussions, railroads were beneficial to society in a variety of ways. Railroads created a way for people to quickly and easily move throughout...
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...Article Review #1 Ottawa University In the article, “Cottage industry to postindustrial care — the revolution in health care delivery” the authors Swenson, Nelson, Hunt and Pryor examine the current state of the American healthcare system as it relates to the complex history of cottage care systems that have integrated into a post-industrial world. They examine how the system functions today, how the mentalities of past ideologies have shaped the modern landscape and what changes are necessary to propel the floundering system in place now into the modern era. The first portion of the article examines the perpetuation of care based on old cottage care style healthcare. This viewpoint is summarized by the statement that “our current health care system is essentially a cottage industry of nonintegrated, dedicated artisans who eschew standardization.” (Swenson, et al. 2010). These views are reinforced through an examination of the massive amounts of autonomy physicians possess, the lack of measured performance and the volume over value system of payment that the US system allows. Most interesting is the idea that under the current system, good doctors are those who will do anything for their patients, defying established patterns and system in place. With the advent of the industrial revolution and the modern medical community, these styles of medicine can no longer function efficiently. A paradigm shift needs to occur to accommodate the changes necessary. According to...
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...Black Air: Industrializing Europe With the onset of the industrial revolution, there were many positive results and many negative ones. Some of the positive results included population growth, the creation of cities, and an overall improved standard of living. The negative consequences often included damaging affects to the environment and the health of the workers: depletion of resources, deforestation, carbon and other gas emissions, depletion of oxygen in the atmosphere, pollution, and human health issues relating to these environmental devastations. These interactions and their consequences played a major role in today’s modernized Europe and the environment. Human-Environmental Interactions in Industrial Europe The Industrial Revolution...
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...The Industrial Revolution and its Impact The Industrial Revolution has been viewed as one of the most influential events to occur in the history of modern society. The invention of new machinery items reduced manual labor. Tasks were performed more efficiently causing increased output of products or work performed in less time. The impact of the Industrial Revolution on the world was that it catapulted the world economy into an almost frenzy like state in which people had access to a much wider variety of goods and services offered to them by businesses. The impact that this event had on the worker’s life was not necessarily a good or bad thing, however. With the advent of new, more efficient technology, workers were able to more easily accomplish certain tasks that would have taken them a much longer time to complete before the Industrial Revolution, however there were some serious negative side effects of such a quick influx of technology. With such new practices and ideas put into the workplace, many workers were expected to be as efficient as the new ways of producing a product or service, and as a result, their health and safety were often overlooked. The Industrial Revolution has had lasting effects on the entire population in almost every facet of our lives, as both consumers and workers, and will always be remembered as one of the driving forces behind the way in which the modern economies of the world have been achieved by developed nations. Life would be completely...
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...Looking Back at the Industrial Revolution AnnLouise Fuller Argosy University SCI 201 – Ecology and Environmental Sustainability Module 1, Assignment 3 Instructor Tamara Allen February 13, 2016 Look Back at the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution is a very broad subject. The industrialization of society was a process that took place over several years. The revolution started in the mid-1700s, and the impact is still visible in the 20th century. The Industrial Revolution defined in our textbook, Essential environment: The science behind the stories (3rd edition), is, "The shift in the mid-1700s from rural life, animal-powered agriculture, and manufacturing by craftsmen to an urban society powered by fossil fuels such as coal and crude oil." (Withgott & Brennan, 2009). The resources mentioned in that quote are the biggest issue, in my opinion, that came from the era. Three of the most environmentally negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution are the use of nonrenewable resources, the human population growth, and the changes to people's lifestyles. Our textbook states, "Resources such as mineral ores and crude oil are in finite supply and are formed much more slowly than we use them. These are known as nonrenewable natural resources. Once we deplete them, they are no longer available" (Withgott & Brennan, 2009). Prior to the revolution, society used renewable resources which replenished themselves over days, months, and years. Eric McLamb...
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...co1 Introduction: The Sixteen-Page Economic History of the World He may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. —Samuel Johnson, Rambler No. 175 (November 19, 1751) The basic outline of world economic history is surprisingly simple. Indeed it can be summarized in one diagram: figure 1.1. Before 1800 income per person—the food, clothing, heat, light, and housing available per head—varied across societies and epochs. But there was no upward trend. A simple but powerful mechanism explained in this book, the Malthusian Trap, ensured that short term gains in income through technological advances were inevitably lost through population growth. Thus the average person in the world of 1800 was no better off than the average person of 100,000 BC. Indeed in 1800 the bulk of the world population was poorer than their remote ancestors. The lucky denizens of wealthy societies such as eighteenth-century England or the Netherlands managed a material lifestyle equivalent to that of the Stone Age. But the vast swath of humanity in East and South Asia, particularly in China and Japan, eked out a living under conditions probably significantly poorer than those of cavemen. The quality of life also failed to improve on any other observable dimension. Life expectancy was no higher in 1800 than for hunter-gatherers:...
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...ENVS 1127 Chapters 6, 8, 9 & 10 Homework Assignment 4 Due Noon Tuesday, October 15, 2013 1. Name and describe the four different revolutions leading to significant increases in the human population. What is the importance of the fifth revolution, the environmental revolution, to the size of the human population on this planet? (Chapter 8) The Neolithic Revolution was the first revolutions that lead to a increase in human populations. The Neolithic Revolution occurred approximately 12,000 years ago and was the rise of stable food, the rise of settlements, specialization of labor, and the reduction of mortality. Following this is the Industrial Revolution saw the birth and rise of modern technology and science. Because of new energy sources, production became more efficient and faster. Food could be produced quicker; this also began increased environmental resource exploitation. The Medical Revolution included the increase of epidemics and other rise in diseases that gave children a high mortality rate. This resulted in a low population growth. Because of this, more health regulations were put into place. This in turn, increased human population growth rate. The Green Revolution began with the concern of over-production of food, this lead to an increase in agricultural efficiency. The newest revolution, the Environmental Revolution, consists of policy and industrial changes. This also includes efficient technologies, urban, regional planning and also changes in personal...
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...Health Care Industry Today’s health care system is complex and very different from “what it used to be”. The America health care system has not only undergone drastic changes, but also continues to evolve. The spiraling cost of health in the United States of America is evidenced by both per capita expenditures, and also by measuring health care health care expenditures in relationship to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In 1960 the National Health Care Expenditures in billions was $26.9 and per capita was $141, but we can see the drastic difference that in 1996 the expenditures in billions was $1,035.1 and per capita was $ 3,708. With that information we can clearly see that the United States of America have the most expensive health care system in the world. The number of people in the population without health care is one of the primary concerns raised by advocates of health care reform. Multiple surveys indicate that the number of uninsured has fallen due to expanded Medicaid eligibility and health insurance exchanges established due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as PPACA or “Obamacare”. According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2012 there were 48.0 million people in the U.S. (15.4% of the population) who were without health insurance coverage. Non-citizens are more likely to be uninsured than citizens, with a 43.8% uninsured rate. For millions of working Americans, the industrial revolution changed the very nature of...
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...The industrial revolution took place from the 18th to 19th century in which the countryside in America became modern and urban. Industrialization generated an array of manufactured goods and enriched basic living for certain folks. With this revolution came a flock of immigrants and the demographics shifted considerably and would aid these big tycoons. The industrial revolution was new and too many it was unknown with that being said no formal regulations were set for these new industries. These big businesses ran by wealthy tycoons took advantage of the working class Americans and the new faces that arrived in the states. Long...
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...Course Authors Name Institutional Affiliation Chapter 4 The chapter looks at the main factors that led to the concern off international health. It explores the main backgrounds of modern international health from the time of the Eurasian plague for three hundred years. It examines events like the rise of the slave trade and imperialism and the health consequences that came with these events. It then turns and examines the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century and the upsurge of the sanitary reform movement. These events led to the presence and development of new international health institutions. Plague outbreaks led to the beginnings of the earliest health regulations. The increase of rival leaders fighting for power and increase of travel and trade led to the outbreaks of widespread diseases. The Middle Ages were characterized by two great plague outbreaks. The Plague of Justinian affected populations moving from Asia to Ireland. The second great plague was the great Black Death in the 14th century. The plague is said to be the most critical epidemic in mankind’s history. The plague shook the whole political, economic, social and ecclesiastical structure of Europe and it led to a death of 25 million people throughout India, China and Mediterranean. The plague was suspected to have been caused by the numerous human contacts. This led to the earliest efforts of international disease control. In the faith that the plague was introduced by the movement of trade ships, Venice...
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...affected by history. The impact of history on society is so significant, it practically molds our future. Look around, we have running water, telephone, electricity, vehicles, and so much more inventions that make life simpler. However, if someone in the past had not thought of these inventions then our present would be completely different. History has a such an enormous impact on society because the interaction between the society and its past is an unending one. History is not simply about facts and dates, instead look at it as if it was a map. It helps provide information that dictates where we came from and where we are going. Decisions and events in history have directed events in the present. Visualize a world without the modern medicine we have today. It’s hard to believe that a few centuries ago diseases were viewed to be caused by evil spirits or it was punishment for sinners. In the 19th century, Louis Pasteur’s work led to the acceptance of the germ theory, this allowed for cures to developed to destroy many...
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...How industrial capitalism has transformed work, its gendered character and its gendering effects The founding fathers those good old boys, always knew where a women’s place was. These Upper-middle class white men were the founder of beliefs that are imbedded in our makeup that created separate sphere and gender role for men and women. That saying a “Women’s place is in the home”, that belief has been in our make up for generations. When the Industrial revolution arrived things changed, it’s transformed the idea of work to outside the home. The result eventually transforms society as a whole. The industrial Revolution is without question one of the most important transformation in human history. With the separation of job opportunities by gender, the effects that our gender plays in the employment opportunities that are available to us. The text states, “The shift of production from homes during the industrialization transformed men into wage laborers who left home each day for jobs. The decline of domestic production, in turn, robbed women of the role of breadwinning, and left them with the invisible and socially devalued tasks as housekeeping and child rearing. Thus in the wake of industrialization, women found themselves with limited options. Because social norms and job discrimination curtailed their participation in the labor force. “ This Ideology of separate spheres was born among the English upper-middle class, called for the separation of family life from paid work...
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...GREATEST MISTAKE 1 The Agricultural Revolution: Greatest Achievement or Greatest Failure? Jared Diamond challenges his readers to think critically about how our modern society obtains its food and the havoc it has wreaked on humankind. His title “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” clearly rings of passion but is it hyperbole? And what is the subject of his scrutiny? The adoption of agriculture. Modern American society is encultured in what he calls the “progressivist” mentality which is the belief that “human history over the past million years has been a long tale of progress” (Diamond, 1987). As explained by Diamond, progressivists celebrate the agricultural revolution crediting it with our ability to enjoy a variety of foods, have more leisure time, create art and build empires, lead long and healthy lives without the daily worry and trouble to find wild foods and avoid starvation. But Diamond brings forth some troubling news to rain on the progressivist’s parade. Those recent archaeology discoveries (now outdated) attempted to discredit the long held beliefs that the human race is better off because of adopted agriculture. “The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.” (Diamond, 1987). The support...
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...The Industrial Revolution began in the second half of 18th century and had an everlasting effect on Europe, and the rest of the world. It caused major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transport and technology. Eventually, socioeconomic and cultural conditions began to change in Britain, which then spread throughout Europe, then eventually the world. These changes made Europe and the rest of the world more modern. Proof of this can be seen in more efficient trade & transport and mass production that were a product of Industrial Revolution. This essay will seek to demonstrate the most significant effect these two components had on modernity and how they shaped Europe, and the rest of the world. The time period covered by the Industrial Revolution varies according to Historians, but according to Eric Hobsbawm, it started in Britain in the 1780s and fulfilled its potential in the 1830s or 1840. Some important effects of these two components comprise of, but are not limited to include: technological and chemical innovations, improved trade, transportation and increase in wealth etc. Almost all aspects of daily life were influenced in some way by the Industrial Revolution; hence it marks a major turning point in human history. Industrial Revolution was an achievement of sustained economic growth that began the industrialization of the European economy. Growth did not reach a plateau in Britain as it did in other countries in Europe. Depressions and recessions...
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...to prevent social disruption caused by ‘free-for-all’. The second function is reproduction of the next generation, if this did not happen then society would cease to exist. The third function is socialisation of the young, which is making young people share society's version of the norms and values. Lastly, is meeting economic needs, as the family consumes food and need shelter, they are contributing to the economy. The welfare state is where the government or state take responsibility for people’s well being, especially their basic minimum needs. It includes various benefits to provide a minimum income as well as the NHS(national health service), state education and council housing. Ronald Fletcher argues that the welfare state supports the family in performing its functions more effectively. For example, the existence of the National Health Service means that with the help of doctors, nurses, hospitals and medicines, the family today is better able to take care of its members when they are sick. Parsons argues that the dominant structure of the family best suits the needs of the economy at the time. This means that nuclear families ‘fit’ an industrial economy because they are geographically mobile and not reliant on wider kin. This is because family members can easily move to new centres of production. Parsons concludes that only the nuclear family could provide the achievement-orientated and geographically mobile workforce required by...
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