Industrial Revolution Vocab

Agriculture

• factory work

• farming

• the time period before 1700

• where workers craft goods in their own homes

Assembly line

• machines and workers that build a product by passing work from one station to the next

• an industrial system of manufacturing in which workers, raw materials, and machinery are gathered under the same roof

• complete control by one company of the production and/or the supply of a good

• an organization that brings together workers to fight for better wages and working conditions

Collective bargaining

• negotiations between employers and employees about wages and working conditions

• a form of protest in which workers refuse to work

• the high-volume, low-cost manufacture of identical items through the use of specialization and interchangeable parts

• complete control by one company of the production and/or the supply of a good

Enclosure

• fencing-in by landowners of formerly common lands

• an industrial system of manufacturing in which workers, raw materials, and machinery are gathered under the same roof

• farming

• the growth of cities

Factory system

• an economic system in which land and factories are owned collectively or are controlled by the state

• an industrial system of manufacturing in which workers, raw materials, and machinery are gathered under the same roof

• an organization that brings together workers to fight for better wages and working conditions

• a new idea, device, or method

Industrial revolution

• beginning in the late 1700s, a period in which mechanical power replaced muscle power for the production of goods

• negotiations between employers and employees concerning wages and working conditions

• the high-volume, low-cost manufacture of identical items through the use of specialization and interchangeable parts

• complete control by one company of the production and/or the supply of a good

Innovation

• farming

• the growth of cities

• a new idea, device, or method

• a person who takes a financial risk by starting a business

Labor unions

• the high-volume, low-cost manufacture of identical items through the use of specialization and interchangeable parts

• an organization that brings together workers to fight for better wages and working conditions

• an economic system in which a land, resources, and companies are owned by the state

• a form of protest in which workers refuse to work

Mass production

• the high-volume, low-cost manufacture of identical items through the use of specialization and interchangeable parts

• the idea that the free market will regulate itself, and that the government should not interfere in this process

• an organization that brings together workers to fight for better wages and working conditions

• an economic system in which a land, resources, and companies are owned by the state

Socialism

• fencing-in by landowners of formerly common lands

• the growth of cities

• an economic system in which a land, resources, and companies are owned by the state

• beginning in the late 1700s, a period in which mechanical power replaced muscle power for the production of goods