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Mechanization is the use of machines instead of human and animal labor. Before mechanization there were few machines to help people do their jobs. This caused people to work longer and harder to produce cotton. When the spinning jenny was invented, by James Hargreaves, weaving cotton was made easier and faster. A human controlled the spinning jenny and told it what to do but the machine did the actual work. Resource: [] []

Innovation is the introduction of something new such as a new idea, method, or device. An innovation introduces new ways of thinking and uses things that people may not have thought of using. In the industrial revolution inverters improved machines such as the spinning jenny. The inverter Richard Arkwright made the water frame, which replaced the spinning jenny because the yarn made from the spinning jenny was very weak.

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The units per man hour is the amount of items that can be created in an hour. Before the industrial revolution this number was not very high. This number increased with the invention of the assembly line. The assembly line broke down the jobs to small tasks. Ransom E. Olds created the assembly line in 1901 to keep up with the increasing demand for horseless carriages. Units per man hour was improved after mechanization was created, as men worked less per hour, due to machines doing work quicker and for them. Henry Ford used the assembly line to assemble automobiles. The factory was able to make the famous Model T in 93 minutes. Resource: [] [] [|http://ask.reference.com/web?q=units%2http://binnekampleeversalvador.wikispaces.com/#0per%20man%20hour&l=dir&qsrc=2891&o=10616]

The agricultural revolution was when vast improvements were made to farming. The population was increasing, and so people had to find a way to produce more food. It started off with land being wasted due to strips of land being used, with dead land in between. When the crops needed re planting, there was no way to plant more for that time. It was then improved so that land would be split into four, and as the seasons rotated, so did the crops, onto each different land every time they had to leave their old land fallow. One of these new tools is the plow. The plow allowed a farmer to cut roots and make small ditches for seeds to be placed in. Before the plow the small ditches had to be made by hand for someone to come and sow the seeds in the small holes. Resources: [] []

Factory work,the work in factories, was very common in the Industrial Revolution and greatly affected the lives of citizens in Britain. Women found that, since their only income was from spinning wool, that factories were taking away their source of money. Work in factories was much more efficient and it created better materials. Children had to do factory work as a form of hard schooling. Men were being pressured to do factory work and woman made contributions to their families by doing factory work. Factory work was dangerous work because of all the new machinery and fumes from the machinery. [] []

City slum dwelling is people who live in areas that are run down. This was common in cities such as London in the time of the industrial revolution. Some got the cellar and others got a small house packed with multiple families. For those that lived in the cellars, there was sewage that had seeped in through the walls when it had rained hard. Land was of so much value in the city, that many could not afford the land so they lived with many families. The pay was very bad so people who worked in factories and as farmers could not afford large houses for their families and so there were more city slum dwellers.

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During the time of the industrial revolution people moved away from the countrysides to the city where there is a lot of work. People also moved to different countries in search of a better life and some were transported as punishment. However, the main reason for people migrating was to find better work and so sometimes moved from small villages to large industrial cities. This leads to the overpopulation which caused city slums, little food, etc. Resource: [] []

Some pull factors of the industrial cities were to seek work. People were pulled to the cities by promises of working in the new factories. An example is Manchester which pulled people to work in the factories because of their stronghold of the textile industry. If you needed housing in the cities but could not afford your own house then you would have to share housing with others families. Another industry that pulled a lot of workers to the cities was the cotton industry. This industry needed many workers and in the cotton factories would often hire children to earn more income for their families. Resource: [] []

Push factors of the agricultural revolution are reasons that pushed you away from working in agriculture. Because of the improvement in farming and the new knowledge of machinery, during the industrial revolution, farmers were put out of their job. Because of this people moved to cities to work in the factories. The machines took away the jobs of people so that they have nothing to do. Many people were pulled to the cities. Before the revolution the farms needed many people to make little holes to put seeds in the ground but because the plow was invented it only took a little a few seconds to make the hole. Resource: [] []