Lesson 1: The Before and The After

Welcome to Lesson 1! (: Before we begin, these are some general information about the IR:

WHO/WHERE: Started in Britain, spread to other parts of Europe and the USA later on.

WHEN: circa. 1760-1840 (around 80 years!!!)

HOW:
To show HOW the IR affected the people and the economy, we will be looking at how life was before and after the IR.

From the above, the IR is indeed a drastic shift from a labour-intensive, skills-based economy, to an economy that lies on machines, specialised labour in factories and cities and a "worldwide market for goods, services and capital". 

Let's link this back to our question: Is the IR really a revolution? 

From this lesson, we can conclude that there were major and drastic changes in the lives of the people (social system) in terms of where they live, how they worked, their income, etc as well as to the economy. Also, the IR was able to achieve such drastic changes in short span of only 80 years.