Forum Post 5 - Industrial Revolution

1/30/2014

Continuity and Change

Choose one of the following empires and explain how the process of industrialization changed (or did not change) the social, political, and economic structures of the empire during the 19th century. Maximum of 2 students per country.
- France
- Russia
- Hapsburg Empire
- Germany
- Italy
- Belgium
- Spain

12 Comments

Tim Goetz link

1/30/2014 05:41:17 am

France's political, economic and social structures were very much changed by the Industrial Revolution. Their economy grew, as guilds were replaced with factories that manufactured a surplus of goods that could be shipped outside of the country. Their political environment grew uneasy with the Revolution, because of a surge of popularity in Socialism. This political belief, held by the Paris Commune, eventually led to an attempted overthrow of the government in place, though this overthrow failed miserably and France's republic remained intact. Socially, the Industrial Revolution changed France by expanding the middle class, but it also expanded the lower classes and opened the door to exploitation of children and unskilled workers in dangerous working conditions.

Daniel Michelsen

1/30/2014 11:40:28 am

France changed a lot, first of all, people who worked in factores got money, not much, but some. The life expectancy went way down. The economy of France went up, because they had colonies, so they could pick up raw material and sell a product. France also got the boguisoui. Wealthy middle class. Political; people didn't like the change, and people was more so against it, and they tried to overthrow the government, but failed. France keep the republic. So the government ended up with more power in the end.

Sir Robert Chuck Swaggedy III

2/2/2014 06:34:00 am

Russia's late industrialization affected the country so greatly that it set it on a different path from western Europe. The 1880's is when Russia industrialized, about 50 years after Western Europe; they did it in such a fast fashion that they lacked a key element to a successful transition from an agricultural state to an industrial one, a healthy middle class. By having the state doing the industrializing there was no demand for the surplus goods they produced because most of the population was still too poor and/or working in the new factories. Also serfdom had not been completely eradicated at the time and only half of the factory workers were actually paid. This inequality caused social unrest and led to the overall embrace of Marx's communist ideology. Added with the impoverished government due to the rough transition communism took a foothold in Russia and eventually all of Eastern Europe.

Bridget

2/2/2014 08:34:42 am

Russia was not as advanced as other countries, as was shown in the Crimean War in the 1850s, but Russia was not totally unindustrialized. Some serfs were involved in industry. Russia had tried to get the serfs to do more work, but then they ended up being freed in 1861. A good middle class did not really exist, there was still the poor and the rich. Politically, the Tsar was still powerful, and got a little more powerful, after some violence by extremists. The Russian economy became more open and expanded after the building of the trans-siberian railroad in the 1870s, which allowed easier transport of materials, such as steel, as well as export foods. They also built more factories and had an increased number of workers.

Sources include Merriman and AP world textbook

Valentin Laasch

2/2/2014 11:13:57 am

Germany lagged behind Britian and Frence with the industrialization. The indutrialization helped Germany, which was split into idependent states, to unify. Also Germany worked together with Britian who sent experts to help Germany. Friedrich List proposed the abolition of all tariffs within Germany, so they got a independent from Britian. After this events the German economy grew fast. There were many new jobs, for example at Krupp which was the biggest and most famous weapon factory in Germany

Henry Schaller

2/2/2014 11:14:30 am

Germany's industrial revolution pushed it to being one of Europe's main powers. By 1900 Germany was one of the most advanced countries in the world. The introduction of new crops allowed peasants to migrate to the cities and work in textile and chemical factories. The construction of railroads helped further unify Germany. Economic fluctuations led to the development of cartels which were legal unlike in other countries. The middle class was also smaller than in other places but welfare programs were still created to slow the immigration of workers to the United States. At the end of the 19th century Germany was one of the most economically powerful nations in the world. It led Europe in steel and chemical production.

Hector Gonzalez

2/2/2014 02:07:39 pm

In 1814 Belgium was part of the United Netherlands, they got their freedom in 1830. Belguim was very influenced by the Industrial Revolution. Belgium had plentiful deposits of coal, also of iron which made easy the production of steel, also it had easy access to the technology markets of Great Britain, both of which were strong facilities for starting manufacturing steam engines, which were the base of the production in this moment. Belgium also promoted economic development through personal investment, all this factors made Belgium a very industrilized country during the Industrial Revolution.

Darice

2/2/2014 02:50:36 pm

During the 19th Century industrialization, Belgium became a pioneer in the building of the railways. Between 1840 and 1880 the railway network expanded to more than Great Britain. Because of this, they made a lot of profit from trading with less-developed parts of Europe.
Belgium mined coal, with the help of the steam engine, and they also made textiles.
Because of his, Belgium became a very industrialized state.

Florian Badidi

2/2/2014 04:39:02 pm

In 19th century, Italy became an unified empire but this empire was divided in two side during the Industrial Revolution. The first part in the north was really wealthy because a huge industrialization began quickly by the energy produced by the Alps, the capitals made by the agriculture and also the moving of the textiles firms from the south to the north. This industrialization was mostly between the three most important cities in the North ( Turin, Milan and Genoa ) and this situation forced millions to move in another place. In the end of the 19th century, Italy started to create an empire by forcing Somalia, Eritrea and Libya in order to get a colonial power also to rival with the others European empires.

Phoebe Wahlberg

2/3/2014 03:40:58 am

The nation of Spain is not known for being strongly influenced by the industrial revolution and thus did not have many prominent socioeconomic or political change. A slight increase was seen of the iron and steel mining industries, however the agricultural industry still dominated the nation. The educational benefits that came as a result of the Industrial Revolution were slow to reach Spain as most of the nation remained illiterate and uneducated. The economy continued to be stressed and even worsened during the two year famine beginning in 1880. Arguably the most beneficial influence the Revolution cast upon Spain was the creation of the nation wide railroad that in the middle of the century, which improved both transportation and communication.

Barud Tesfaye

2/3/2014 03:57:50 am

The Spanish had not been strongly influenced by the industrial revolution, as there are no big events that had been brought upon by the revolution. The people of spain where still living in an agricultural state of mind. Therefore Spain had not been heavily influenced by the revolution.

Henry Petersen

5/3/2014 07:08:01 am

The hapsburg empire was not drastically effected by industrialization such as England or France. It was still mainly an agricultural society with the exception of Vienna and Prague, which after 1851 both cities were open to a lot more trading thanks trains to German states and from there, France. From 1800 to 1850 their manufacturing capacity increased to 5 times what it had been at the start of the century. Politically they did not change. They progressed technologically and in power, but were not able to keep up with with France, Germany or Great Britain.

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