Class 10 Social Science — Chapter 4: The Age of Industrialisation

What you'll learn

• ▸Proto-industrialisation: Production Before Factories
• ▸The Rise of the Factory System in Britain
• ▸The Pace of Industrial Change
• ▸Life of the Industrial Worker in Britain
• ▸Industrialisation in Colonial India: The Age of Indian Textiles
• ▸The Advent of Factories in India
• ▸Peculiarities of Industrial Growth in Colonial India
• ▸Creating a Market for Goods

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- Chapter IV 1066CH04 The Age of Industrialisation The Age of Industrialisation Fig. 1 – Dawn of the Century, published by E.T. Paull Music Co., New York, England, 1900. In 1900, a popular music publisher E.T. Paull produced a music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the ‘Dawn of the Century’ (Fig. 1). As you can see from the illustration, at the centre of the picture is a goddess-like figure, the angel of progress, bearing the flag of the new century. She is gently perched on a wheel with wings, symbolising time. Her flight is taking her into the future. Floating about, behind her, are the signs of progress: railway, camera, machines, printing press and factory. This glorification of machines and technology is even more marked in a picture which appeared on the pages of a trade magazine over a hundred years ago (Fig. 2). It shows two magicians. The one at the top is Aladdin from…

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Did you know?

• 💡 Many early industrial factories were powered by fast-flowing rivers using water wheels.
• 💡 Before factories, most goods were handmade at home, a system called proto-industrialisation.
• 💡 The first steam engines were initially used to pump water out of coal mines.
• 💡 Industrialisation caused some cities to grow tenfold in just a few decades.
• 💡 Britain's cotton industry boomed so much, it processed millions of pounds of raw cotton yearly.

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