19th Century Economic
19th century Europe was a major history period that leads us to the modern world. There are 3 major events that affected the economic of Europe in 19th century. The First one is the rise of industrial revolution, abolishment of slavery, and realization of the laborers. These three themes or events were a major contribution to the modern society and system. Without industrial revolution, we would not have this modern technology and products. Without abolishment of slavery the industrial revolution wouldn’t be as stable as it was. Without realization of laborers, workers and employees would still be in a horrible environment and the life expectancy would become much lower than now.
The rise of industrial revolution is perhaps the most important role in 19th century Europe economic. It first started from England, there were rumors that the England government tried to keep it as a secret not willing to let others know, but people started to escape and spreading the technology to other nations in Europe. Later it spread to United States. The technology or the steam system created products higher, faster, and a lot more accurate. Although the product is much better than human made products, it created numerous amounts of issues that people did not realize during the industrial period, for example the environmental pollution, over crowded amount of people, and the unequal treatment of the laborers.
The Abolishment of Slavery started from England in 1933. After it started other countries in Europe started to follow, and last the United States followed. People “uses” slaves for farming purpose can no longer farm anymore, and so more people started to enroll into the city and worked for the factory. This also mean that the industrial age is becoming more and more stable, this also symbols that the world is going into a complete industrial life and hardly any possible solution to change it.
As a history teacher mentioned in class if treat a employee or laborer a better treatment, the efficiency would increase more than treating a employee worse. In the late 19th century, laborers began to fight back. For example The Luddites, the luddites are a group of factory workers that disagree with the treatment they had received from the owner. They would raid the factories; destroy everything they could from the factory. At last the laborers did get a better treatment than before. This opened a chance for the laborers to improve their treatment, and lead to the modern employee treatment.
Even though Industrial revolution leads us to all the technology today, but also sacrificed many “invisible” things that we do not realize. I personally think that the overall result is not as great as we think.
I give you a 8.
ReplyDeleteWhy? Well, you show understanding about the evolution of economic, especially in the 19th century. Second, you clearly explained the relationship between economic and major events in the 19th century.
However, you could do better by using some modern day examples and compare our economic now with the 19th century.