Even children worked in factories, putting in 14-hour shifts alongside adults. They were made to work long hours, often in unsafe conditions. Unskilled factory laborers were cheap and plentiful. And what emerged as the new center of community life? The factory.īut factory life was difficult. Steamships and railroads revolutionized how people got from A to B. The world began to rely on steam power and machine tools, while But with steam power, those agrarian societies gave way to urbanization. Society used to be largely agrarian, which is a fancy way of saying that life used to be centered around farming. And beginning around 1760, through the advent of the steam engine, steam was powering everything from agriculture to textile manufacturing. The First Industrial Revolution: The Age of Mechanical ProductionĪs it turns out, when you heat up water, you get steam. Rest assured, we cover each of these in more detail next.
We’re now at the beginning of the next phase of dramatic technological expansionĪnd social change-the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
It was followed by the age of science and mass production, and then the digital revolution. So the first one-the one with steam power-that was the first industrial revolution. Schwab describes an industrial revolution as the appearance of “new technologies and novel ways of perceiving the world trigger a profound change in economic
Industrial revolution throughout history, including the one we’re beginning right now. In his book The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, asserts that there are actually four distinct periods of So, perhaps you remember learning about the Industrial Revolution in history class, and talking about how steam engines and factories changed the landscape of European and American economics and society. Wait, I thought the Industrial Revolution Only Happened That One Time?
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