Name: Human Labour in the Era of Industrial Revolution
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 5 min 22 s
Description: A machine can do in minutes what a man can do in hours. But are there any downsides? Let's take a look at the battle between man and machine.

Question

Do a comparison between the modern and early industries, focusing on the changes of the technology.

Accepted Answer

Early Industries:-

Before the industrialisation or industrial revolution, the process of production was mainly based on manual labour.

Early industries generally flourished in the countryside and were based on household production. In this system, the scope of production was limited and output was mainly sold in indigenous markets. As the demand was limited, the production was also limited. Merchants generally went to the countryside to procure the products from the weavers.

The use of technology was limited to this type of production. Hence, There was no division of labour.

Modern Industries:-

With the advent of imperialistic politics in Europe the production procedure changed. To meet up the demand for the international market changes were introduced in production.

New inventions in technology reduced the labour and number of workers. New factories were set up in towns where the whole production system was supervised. This scope of supervision was not present in the earlier production system.

With the help of heavy machinery, the division of labour system was introduced. So the concept of work specialisation was introduced where a person started to produce only one part of the whole product, and then they were assembled.

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