Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the stages by which industrialisation reorganised where and how people lived.
- Towns grow far faster than their housing, water and sanitation
- Power-driven machinery makes household production uncompetitive
- Mortality in the new districts becomes a public and political question
- Work relocates to sites where power and machinery are concentrated
- Labour migrates from the countryside towards those sites
Hints
- The sequence begins with a change in the cost of producing at home.
- The sanitary crisis is a consequence of the speed of growth, not of the machinery itself.
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- Power-driven machinery makes household production uncompetitive
- Work relocates to sites where power and machinery are concentrated
- Labour migrates from the countryside towards those sites
- Towns grow far faster than their housing, water and sanitation
- Mortality in the new districts becomes a public and political question
Why
The last step is what produced the first great wave of social investigation. Cholera, the sanitary reports and the factory inquiries generated statistics on a population nobody had previously counted, and much of early empirical sociology is built from evidence gathered by people trying to stop an epidemic.
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