Europe In A Revolutionary Age

Running head: EUROPE IN A REVOLUTIONARY AGE
Europe in a revolutionary age
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Thesis statement:
Topic:
“Examining growth and industrialization of any major urban center in Europe during Industrial
Revolution”
Claims:
 The industrialization has led towards urbanization historically through generating job
opportunities and economic development. This has been drawing the people towards the
cities.
 Moreover, the urbanization has started as different factories are been established at that
sector. In this way a high demand is created for the labors of factories (Lehmann-Hasemeyer,
Sibylle and Fabian).
 Here, other business like service providers, retailers and building manufacturers have been
following the factories. This is meet the demand of product of the workers. It has giving rise
to more jobs. Besides, more demands are generating regarding housing and establishment of
urban area.
 In the modern era, manufacturing facilities like factories are often replaced by technology-
industry hubs. These technological hubs draw workers from other areas in the same way
factories used to, contributing to urbanization. The industrial revolution has altered the
material production, labor patterns, population distribution and wealth (Cinnirella, Francesco
and Jochen).
 Though various rural sectors have been staying as the communities of farming at that time,
people’s lives at the cities has been changing drastically. This latest industrial labor scopes

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has resulted in shift of population from countryside towards the cities. This new factory has
given rise to the necessity for strong system related to factory of discipline (Wahl).
 At that time, the unsecured conditions of working and child labor rampant at different
factories has given rise to the reform movements. Then, the movement of population has
been resulted by individuals staying are small communities of farming moving to cities. The
prospective labors has been searching for the wage labor at various newly developed cities.
Rationale of the stance:
 The Industrial Revolution originated from the British. This is the reason why British
evidences has been setting the gained wisdom and understanding on Industrial Revolution.
As a result of that, the retrieved wisdom within studies is that unlike financial growth at
twentieth century the formal education comprised of no such role in economic development
at the time of revolution.
 Though the developments at England has been promoted through different factors or also
been accidental, they were somehow different over the continent of Europe (Becker et al.).
As the work processes and new machines has been present at England, there were other
nations who has been copying them.
 Therefore, this adoption of English machines and techniques has been vital to catch-up to
that frontier of technology.
 Nonetheless, the pre-conditions has been same for everyone. There were some sectors having
little level of education for quick adoption (Edwards). The literature till far has provided little
attention to the role of education in catching up the technological follower countries as the
Industrial revolution goes on. In the following study, the case of Prussia, being the education
world leader has been catching up the industrial revolution is demonstrated.
 There has been the argument that formal education is required for adopting the new
technologies and proving vital for financial catch-up of nations who are follower of

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technology. The empirical evidence lies on the basis of regional patterns of industrialization
during 19th century land of Prussia supporting the hypothesis. The arguments begins from the
notion of theoretical models.
 The model proposes the fact that education is the primary element for absorbing the latest
technologies and then adapt to that change (Edwards). For examining that whether it was
actually the situation as the Industrial Revolution, the benefits can be taken from the reality
that Prussians has been meticulous gatherers of data.
 Furthermore, the Prussian statistical office has been seen to be conducting the string of
overall population, occupation, and factory and school census during 19th century. Through
descending to various archives, the historically distinct micro-regional panel dataset has been
complied. This comprised of 334 Prussian nations who were spanning from the year 1816
prior this revolution began at Prussia. This has company put across middle of 1830 like Tilly
1996 (Moch).
 Till the ending of initial phase of industrialization during 1849 and the further phase during
1882. The outcomes proved the fact that education has been a vital role regarding
industrialization at the initial phase of the revolution. This reacted to be more successful for
the scopes generated from the outside technological changes occurring at Britain. Here,
significance of education has raised from initial to further phase.
 Despite the great average attainment of education the industrial employment has been at the
third least place during the initial phase at Prussia. Possibly this has been also lower as the
second phase was going on (Matzerath).