A | B |
industrialism | a system based on the use of machines rather than on animal or human power |
Agricultural Revolution | sweeping changes in farming |
enclosure movement | a movement begun when Parliament allowed large landowners to fence off common lands |
textile | woven cloth |
crop rotation | rotating crops on three fields instead of two |
domestic system | workers spun and wove wool into cloth in their own homes |
factory system | a method of production that brought machines & workers together in one place |
urbanization | the movement of people from rural areas to cities |
monopoly | total control of industry |
industrial capitalism | the system based on the industrial production of goods |
partnership | two or more entrepreneurs |
corporation | organizations owned by stockholders who buy shares in a company |
trade union | an association of workers with the same skill who unite to improve wages, benefits, working conditions and worker rights |
strike | the refusal to work |
socialism | an idea where the government should own and control factories, land, capital (money), and raw materials |
means of production | factories, land, capital, and raw materials |
assembly line | a product moving along a conveyor belt from worker to worker |
mass production | the manufacture of huge quantities of identical goods at cheap prices |
interchangeable parts | the use of machine-made parts that are exactly alike |
division of labor | workers are assigned specialized tasks on an assembly line |