1. SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Look at the concept Second Industrial Revolution of the Wikipedia for doing the exercises.

2. Definition
It is the transformation involving significant developments within the chemical, electrical, petroleum, and steel industries.
By 1870 the global market was saturated with manufactured goods and the problem led up to the long depression called New Imperialism.

3. Exercise First industrial revolution. Sectors
Second industrial revolution. Sectors.

4. INVENTIONS Bessemer and Siemens steel making processes
Printing press, essential for the communication of technical ideas

5. GEOGRAPHY GERMANY BRITAIN Capital+effort+time Technological advances
Inversion in research
Cartels: made a more efficient use of fluid capital
BRITAIN
Former industrialization
Use of expensive and outdated technology
No inversions in research
Capital less fluid

6. QUESTIONS
When did Germany start its industrialization process seriously?
Why could not they do it earlier?
Which country had been the most developed during first industrial revolution?
Which is the better prepared country for industrialization in the second industrial revolution?

7. COMPARATION First industrial revolution Workers: from town to cities
Unemployment: Not important
Wages: Low
Kind of workers: Blue collar
Unions: First groups as luddities

8. COMPARATION Second industrial revolution: Workers: Unemployment:
Wages:
Kind of workers:
Unions:

9. APPLICATION OF INVENTIONS
New energy: electricity
New engines: steam and internal-combustion
New transport: automobile
New way of production: chain
New power sources: petroleum and nuclear reactors.

10. Exercise Fill in the gaps:
The demand of the for more durable rail led to the development of cheaply mass produce It is considered the first or a series of areas for , that began around This Second Industrial Revolution include several sectors: industries, refining, industries and industries. The industrial leadership passed from Britain to and

11. The introduction of power enabled the rapid industrialization of starved northern Italy. The increasing availability of economic products also reduced the relation of coal to the potential for industrialization.
The first giant industrial appeared by the 1890s, when companies as U.S. Steel, General Electric, Bayer AG joined the on the world’s

12. ANSWER
Why the Industrial Revolution took place in Europe and no in China? (Look for evidence in your worksheet).

13. CAPITALIST
How did Enlightenment provided the framework for the industrial development?
What do you think that is implied in the Adam Smith’s idea about The Wealth of Nations?

14. MARXIST
Can you identify the terms capitalism, socialism and communism with the three stages of Marxist dialectical?
Which were the two social groups mentioned by Marx and what did each one own?
Which were the leading causes for poverty conditions in cities?
What should develop proletariat?

15. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TERMINOLOGY
Make you sure you can define the following concepts:
Industrial Revolution:
Factory system:
Interchangeable parts:
Steamboat:
Telegraph:
Luddities:
Trade unions: