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Chapter V.The Age of Industrialisation.
Day1.Period 1.Page 103- 104.
Topic E.T.Paul Picture.
Terms
Orient - the countries to the east of the Mediterranean, usually referring to Asia.The term arises out of a western viewpoint that sees this region as pre modem, traditional and mysterious.
Proto - Indicating the first or early form of something.
Persons.E.T. Paull
Understandings 103.
The Age of Industrialisation.
Fig.1 Dawn of the Century, published by ET.Paul Music Co .. New York, England,1900.
In 1900,a popular music publisher E.T. Paull produced a music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the Dawn of the Century.Fig.1.
As you can see from the illustration, at the center of the picture is a goddess - like figure, the angel of progress, bearing the flag of the new century.
She is gently perched on a wheel with wings, symbolizing time.Her flight is taking her into the future.
Floating about, behind her, are the signs of progress, railway, camera, machines, printing press and factory, this glorification of machines and technology is even more marked in a picture which appeared on the pages of a trade magazine over a hundred years ago.
Understandings.104.The one at the top is Aladdin from the orient who built a beautiful palace with his magic lamp.The one at the bottom is the modern mechanic, who with his modern tools weaves a new magic builds bridges, ships, towers and high - rise buildings.
Aladdin is shown as representing the East and the past, the mechanic stands for the West and modernity.
These images ofter us a triumphant account of the modern world.Within this account the modern world is associated with rapid technological change and innovations, machines and factories,railways and steamships.The history of industrialization thus becomes simply a story of development, and the modern age appears as a wonderful time of technological progress.
These images and associations have now become part of popular imagination.
Do you not see rapid industrialization as a time of progress and modernity?
Do you not think that the spread of railways and factories,and construction of high - rise buildings and bridges is a sign of society's development ?
How have these images developed ? And how do we relate to these ideas? Is industrialization always based on rapid technological development can we continue today to glorify continuous mechanization of all work? What has industrialization meant to people's lives?To answer such questions we need to turn to the history of industrialization.
Fig.2 Two Magicians, published in Inland Printers, 26 January 1901.
In this chapter we will look at this history by focusing first on Britain, the first industrial nation, and then India, where the pattern of industrial change was conditioned by colonial rule.
Activity Give two examples where modern development that is associated with progress has lead to problems.You may like to think of areas related to environmental issues, nuclear weapons or disease.
Understandings.105.
Before the Industrial Revolution
All too often we associate industrialization with the growth of factory industry when we talk of industrial production we refer to factory production.When we talk of industrial workers we mean factory workers.Histories of
industrialisation very often begin with the setting up of the first factories.
There is a problem with such ideas.Even before factories began to dot the landscape in England and Europe, there was large-scale industrial production for an international market.This was not based on factories. Many historians now refer to this phase of industrialization as proto industrialisation.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, merchants from the towns in Europe began moving to the countryside, further money to peasants and artisans,persuading them to produce for an international market. With the expansion of world trade and the acquisition of colonies in different parts of the world, the demand for goods began growing but merchants could not expand production within towns.
This was because here urban crafts and trade guilds were powerful.These were associations of producers that trained craftspeople, maintained control over production, regulated competition and prices, and restricted the entry of new people into the trade Rulers granted different guilds the monopoly night to produce and trade in specific products. It was therefore difficult for new merchants to set up business in towns. So they turned to the countryside.
In the countryside poor peasants and artisans began working for merchants. As you have seen in the textbook last year, this was a time when open fields were disappearing and commons were being enclosed.Cottagers and poor peasants who had earlier depended on common lands for their survival, gathering their firewood, berries, vegetables, hay and straw, had to now look for alternative sources of income.Many had tiny plots of land which could not provide work for all members of the household.So when merchants came around and offered advances to produce goods for them, peasant ones eagerly agreed.By working for the merchants, they
Fig.3 - Spinning in the eighteenth century.You can see each member of the family involved in the production of yarn.Notice that one who is moving only one spindle.
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Stapler - A person who'staples'or sorts wool according to its fiber
Fuller - A person who 'fulls' - that is, gathers - cloth by pleating
Carding -The process in which fibers,such as cotton or wool,are prepared prior to spinning
Understandings.106.
Could remain in the countryside and continue to cultivate their small plots.Income from proto - industrial production supplemented their shrinking income from cultivation.
It also allowed them a fuller use of their family labor resources.
Within this system a close relationship developed between the town and the countryside.Merchants were based in towns but the work was done mostly in the countryside.
A merchant clothier in England purchased wool from a wool stapler, and carried it to the spinners;the yarn (thread) that was spun was taken in subsequent stages of production to weavers, fullers, and then to dyers. The finishing was done in London before the export merchant sold the cloth in the international market. London in fact came to be known as a finishing center.
This proto - industrial system was thus part of a network of commercial exchanges.It was controlled by merchants and the goods were produced by a vast number of producers working within their family farms, not in factories.At each stage of production 20 to 25 workers were employed by each merchant. This meant that each clothier was controlling hundreds of workers.
1.1 The Coming Up of the Factory
The earliest factories in England came up by the 1730s. But it was only in the late eighteenth century that the number of factories multiplied.
The first symbol of the new era was cotton. Its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.In 1760 Britain was importing 2.5 million pounds of raw cotton to feed its cotton industry.By 1787 thus import soared to 22 million pounds.This increase was linked to a number of changes within the process of production.Let us look briefly at some of these.
A series of inventions in the eighteenth century increased the efficacy of each step of the production process carding, twisting and spinning and rolling).They enhanced the output per worker, enabling cach worker to produce more, and they made possible the production of stronger threads and yarn.
Then Richard Arkwright created the cotton mill.Till this time, as you have seen, cloth production was spread all over the countryside and carried out within village households.But now, the costly new machines could be purchased, set up and maintained in the mill.Within the mill all the
Fig.4 A Lancashire cotton mill.painted by C.E.Turner,The Illustrated London News.1925.
The artist said: 'Seen through the humid atmosphere that makes Lancashire the best cotton - spinning locality in the world, a huge cotton - mill aglow with electricity in the Twilight is a most impressive sight.
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processes were brought together under one roof and management.This allowed a more careful supervision over the production process, a watch over quality, and the regulation of labor, all of which had been difficult to do when production was in the countryside.
In the early nineteenth century, factories became increasingly an intimate part of the English landscape. So visible were the imposing new mills, so magical seemed to be the power of new technology, that contemporaries were dazzled.They concentrated their attention on the mills, almost forgetting the bylanes and the workshops where production still continued.
Activity.
The way in which historians focus on industrialization rather than on small workshops is a good example of how we believe today about the past is influenced by what historians choose to notice and what they ignore.
Note down one event or aspect of your own life which adults such as your parents or teachers may think is unimportant, but which you believe to be important.
Fig.5 - Industrial Manchester by M. Jackson, The Illustrated London News. 1857 Chimneys billowing smoke came to characterize the industrial landscape.
1.2 The Pace of Industrial Change.
How rapid was the process of industrialisation? Does industrialization mean only the growth of factory industries?
Activity.Look at Figs.4 and 5.
Can you see any difference in the way the two images show industrialisation ?
Explain your view briefly
First : The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly cotton and metals.Growing at a rapid pace, cotton was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialization up to the 1840s.After that the iron and steel industry led the way.
With the expansion of railways, in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s, the demand for iron and steel increased rapidly.
By 1873 Britain was exporting iron and steel worth about £ 77 million, double the value of its cotton exports.
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Second : the new industries could not easily displace traditional industries.Even at the end of the nineteenth century, less than 20 per cent of the total workforce was employed in technologically advanced industrial sectors.Textiles was a dynamic sector, but a large portion of the output was produced not within factories, but outside,which in domestic units.
Third, the pace of change in the traditional industries was not set by steam powered cotton or metalindustries, but they did not remain entirely stagnant either. Seemingly ordinary and small innovations were the basis of growth in many non mechanised sectors such as food processing,building,pottery,glass work,furniture making,and productions of implements.
Fig.6 - A fitting shop at a railway works in were the basis of growth in many non-mechanized sectors such as England.The illustrated London News, 1849. In the fitting shop new locomotive engines were food processing, building, pottery, glass work, tanning, furniture completed and old ones repaired.
Fourth : technological changes occurred slowly.They did not spread dramatically across the industrial landscape. New technology was expensive and merchants and industrialists were cautious about using it.The machines often broke down and repair was costly.They were not as effective as their inventors and manufacturers claimed.
Consider the case of the steam engine.James Wutt improved the steam engine produced by Newcomen and patented the new engine in 1781. His industrialist friend Mathew Boulton manufactured the new model.But for years he could find no buyers.At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were no more than 321 steam engines all over England.
Of these, 80 were in cotton industries,nine in wool industries, and the rest in mining, canal works and iron works.
Steam engines were not used in any of the other industries till much later in the century.So even the most powerful new technology that enhanced the productivity of labor manifold was slow to be accepted by industrialists.
Historians now have come to increasingly recognize that the typical worker in the mid - nineteenth century was not a machine operator but the traditional craftsperson and labourers.
Fig.7 - A spinning factory in 1830 was not a machine operator but the You can see how giant wheels moved by steam power could set in motion hundreds of spindles to manufacture thread.
Understandings.Page.109.
2.Hand Labour and Steam Power
In Victorian Britain there was no shortage of human labor.Poor and vagrants moved to the cities in large numbers in search of jobs, waiting for work.As you will know, when there is plenty of labor, wages are low.
So industrialists had no problem of labor shortage or high wage costs.They did not want to introduce machines that got rid of human labor and required large capital investment.
In many industries the demand for labor was seasonal.Gas works and breweries were especially busy through the cold months.So they needed more workers to meet their peak demand.
Book binders and printers,catering to Christmas demand, too needed extra hands before December. At the waterfront, winter was the time that ships were repaired and spruced up. In all such industries where production fluctuated with the season, industrialists usually preferred hand labor, employing workers for the season.
Fig.8
- People on the move in search of work, The Illustrated Some people were always
on the move selling small goods and London News,1879.looking for temporary work.
Day1.Period 1.Page 103- 104.
Topic E.T.Paul Picture.
Terms
Orient - the countries to the east of the Mediterranean, usually referring to Asia.The term arises out of a western viewpoint that sees this region as pre modem, traditional and mysterious.
Proto - Indicating the first or early form of something.
Persons.E.T. Paull
Understandings 103.
The Age of Industrialisation.
Fig.1 Dawn of the Century, published by ET.Paul Music Co .. New York, England,1900.
In 1900,a popular music publisher E.T. Paull produced a music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the Dawn of the Century.Fig.1.
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She is gently perched on a wheel with wings, symbolizing time.Her flight is taking her into the future.
Floating about, behind her, are the signs of progress, railway, camera, machines, printing press and factory, this glorification of machines and technology is even more marked in a picture which appeared on the pages of a trade magazine over a hundred years ago.
Understandings.104.The one at the top is Aladdin from the orient who built a beautiful palace with his magic lamp.The one at the bottom is the modern mechanic, who with his modern tools weaves a new magic builds bridges, ships, towers and high - rise buildings.
Aladdin is shown as representing the East and the past, the mechanic stands for the West and modernity.
These images ofter us a triumphant account of the modern world.Within this account the modern world is associated with rapid technological change and innovations, machines and factories,railways and steamships.The history of industrialization thus becomes simply a story of development, and the modern age appears as a wonderful time of technological progress.
These images and associations have now become part of popular imagination.
Do you not see rapid industrialization as a time of progress and modernity?
Do you not think that the spread of railways and factories,and construction of high - rise buildings and bridges is a sign of society's development ?
How have these images developed ? And how do we relate to these ideas? Is industrialization always based on rapid technological development can we continue today to glorify continuous mechanization of all work? What has industrialization meant to people's lives?To answer such questions we need to turn to the history of industrialization.
In this chapter we will look at this history by focusing first on Britain, the first industrial nation, and then India, where the pattern of industrial change was conditioned by colonial rule.
Activity Give two examples where modern development that is associated with progress has lead to problems.You may like to think of areas related to environmental issues, nuclear weapons or disease.
Understandings.105.
Before the Industrial Revolution
All too often we associate industrialization with the growth of factory industry when we talk of industrial production we refer to factory production.When we talk of industrial workers we mean factory workers.Histories of
industrialisation very often begin with the setting up of the first factories.
There is a problem with such ideas.Even before factories began to dot the landscape in England and Europe, there was large-scale industrial production for an international market.This was not based on factories. Many historians now refer to this phase of industrialization as proto industrialisation.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, merchants from the towns in Europe began moving to the countryside, further money to peasants and artisans,persuading them to produce for an international market. With the expansion of world trade and the acquisition of colonies in different parts of the world, the demand for goods began growing but merchants could not expand production within towns.
This was because here urban crafts and trade guilds were powerful.These were associations of producers that trained craftspeople, maintained control over production, regulated competition and prices, and restricted the entry of new people into the trade Rulers granted different guilds the monopoly night to produce and trade in specific products. It was therefore difficult for new merchants to set up business in towns. So they turned to the countryside.
In the countryside poor peasants and artisans began working for merchants. As you have seen in the textbook last year, this was a time when open fields were disappearing and commons were being enclosed.Cottagers and poor peasants who had earlier depended on common lands for their survival, gathering their firewood, berries, vegetables, hay and straw, had to now look for alternative sources of income.Many had tiny plots of land which could not provide work for all members of the household.So when merchants came around and offered advances to produce goods for them, peasant ones eagerly agreed.By working for the merchants, they
Fig.3 - Spinning in the eighteenth century.You can see each member of the family involved in the production of yarn.Notice that one who is moving only one spindle.
Home Assignment
a.Understand the contents.
b.Make the inside Questions/Answers.
c.Learn them.
d.Keep eyes over figures.
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Chapter V.The Age of Industrialisation.
Day2.Period 2.Page 106- 107.
Topic Before the Industrial Revolution.
New words
Topic Before the Industrial Revolution.
New words
Fuller - A person who 'fulls' - that is, gathers - cloth by pleating
Carding -The process in which fibers,such as cotton or wool,are prepared prior to spinning
Understandings.106.
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It also allowed them a fuller use of their family labor resources.
Within this system a close relationship developed between the town and the countryside.Merchants were based in towns but the work was done mostly in the countryside.
A merchant clothier in England purchased wool from a wool stapler, and carried it to the spinners;the yarn (thread) that was spun was taken in subsequent stages of production to weavers, fullers, and then to dyers. The finishing was done in London before the export merchant sold the cloth in the international market. London in fact came to be known as a finishing center.
This proto - industrial system was thus part of a network of commercial exchanges.It was controlled by merchants and the goods were produced by a vast number of producers working within their family farms, not in factories.At each stage of production 20 to 25 workers were employed by each merchant. This meant that each clothier was controlling hundreds of workers.
1.1 The Coming Up of the Factory
The earliest factories in England came up by the 1730s. But it was only in the late eighteenth century that the number of factories multiplied.
The first symbol of the new era was cotton. Its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.In 1760 Britain was importing 2.5 million pounds of raw cotton to feed its cotton industry.By 1787 thus import soared to 22 million pounds.This increase was linked to a number of changes within the process of production.Let us look briefly at some of these.
A series of inventions in the eighteenth century increased the efficacy of each step of the production process carding, twisting and spinning and rolling).They enhanced the output per worker, enabling cach worker to produce more, and they made possible the production of stronger threads and yarn.
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Fig.4 A Lancashire cotton mill.painted by C.E.Turner,The Illustrated London News.1925.
The artist said: 'Seen through the humid atmosphere that makes Lancashire the best cotton - spinning locality in the world, a huge cotton - mill aglow with electricity in the Twilight is a most impressive sight.
Understandings.107.
processes were brought together under one roof and management.This allowed a more careful supervision over the production process, a watch over quality, and the regulation of labor, all of which had been difficult to do when production was in the countryside.
In the early nineteenth century, factories became increasingly an intimate part of the English landscape. So visible were the imposing new mills, so magical seemed to be the power of new technology, that contemporaries were dazzled.They concentrated their attention on the mills, almost forgetting the bylanes and the workshops where production still continued.
Activity.
The way in which historians focus on industrialization rather than on small workshops is a good example of how we believe today about the past is influenced by what historians choose to notice and what they ignore.
Note down one event or aspect of your own life which adults such as your parents or teachers may think is unimportant, but which you believe to be important.
Fig.5 - Industrial Manchester by M. Jackson, The Illustrated London News. 1857 Chimneys billowing smoke came to characterize the industrial landscape.
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How rapid was the process of industrialisation? Does industrialization mean only the growth of factory industries?
Activity.Look at Figs.4 and 5.
Can you see any difference in the way the two images show industrialisation ?
Explain your view briefly
First : The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly cotton and metals.Growing at a rapid pace, cotton was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialization up to the 1840s.After that the iron and steel industry led the way.
With the expansion of railways, in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s, the demand for iron and steel increased rapidly.
By 1873 Britain was exporting iron and steel worth about £ 77 million, double the value of its cotton exports.
Home Assignment
a.Understand the contents.
b.Make the inside Questions/Answers.
c.Learn them.
d.Keep eyes over figures.
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Day3.Period 3.Page 108- 109.
Topic The Pace of Industrial Revolution.
New words
Topic The Pace of Industrial Revolution.
New words
Second : the new industries could not easily displace traditional industries.Even at the end of the nineteenth century, less than 20 per cent of the total workforce was employed in technologically advanced industrial sectors.Textiles was a dynamic sector, but a large portion of the output was produced not within factories, but outside,which in domestic units.
Third, the pace of change in the traditional industries was not set by steam powered cotton or metalindustries, but they did not remain entirely stagnant either. Seemingly ordinary and small innovations were the basis of growth in many non mechanised sectors such as food processing,building,pottery,glass work,furniture making,and productions of implements.
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Fourth : technological changes occurred slowly.They did not spread dramatically across the industrial landscape. New technology was expensive and merchants and industrialists were cautious about using it.The machines often broke down and repair was costly.They were not as effective as their inventors and manufacturers claimed.
Consider the case of the steam engine.James Wutt improved the steam engine produced by Newcomen and patented the new engine in 1781. His industrialist friend Mathew Boulton manufactured the new model.But for years he could find no buyers.At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were no more than 321 steam engines all over England.
Of these, 80 were in cotton industries,nine in wool industries, and the rest in mining, canal works and iron works.
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Historians now have come to increasingly recognize that the typical worker in the mid - nineteenth century was not a machine operator but the traditional craftsperson and labourers.
Fig.7 - A spinning factory in 1830 was not a machine operator but the You can see how giant wheels moved by steam power could set in motion hundreds of spindles to manufacture thread.
Understandings.Page.109.
2.Hand Labour and Steam Power
In Victorian Britain there was no shortage of human labor.Poor and vagrants moved to the cities in large numbers in search of jobs, waiting for work.As you will know, when there is plenty of labor, wages are low.
So industrialists had no problem of labor shortage or high wage costs.They did not want to introduce machines that got rid of human labor and required large capital investment.
In many industries the demand for labor was seasonal.Gas works and breweries were especially busy through the cold months.So they needed more workers to meet their peak demand.
Book binders and printers,catering to Christmas demand, too needed extra hands before December. At the waterfront, winter was the time that ships were repaired and spruced up. In all such industries where production fluctuated with the season, industrialists usually preferred hand labor, employing workers for the season.
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A range of products could be produced only with hand
labor. Machines were oriented to
proaccing uniforms, standardized goods for a mass market. But the demand in the market was often for
goods with intricate designs and specific shapes. In mid - nineteenth - century Britain, for instance,
500 varieties of hammers were produced.
'I had always wanted to go to London, and my desire ... was
stimulated by letters from an old workmate ... who was now working at the Old
Kent Road Gas Works ... I finally
decided to go ... in November, 1881. With two friends I started out to walk the
journey, filled with the hope that we would be able to obtain employment, when
we get there, with the kind assistance.
of my friend. We had little money
when we started, not enough to pay for our food and lodgings each night until
we arrived in London. Some days we
walked as much as twenty miles, and other days less. Our money was gone at the end of the third
day ... For two nights we slept out - once under a haystack, and once in an old
farm shed ... On arrival in London we tried to find ... my friend. .. but ... were unsuccessful. Our money was gone, so there was nothing for
us to do but to walk around until late at night, and then try to find some
place to sleep. We found an old building
and slept in it that night. The next
day, Sunday, late in the afternoon, we got to the Old Kent Gas Works, and
applied for work. To my great surprise,
the man we had been looking for was working at the time. He spoke to the foreman and I was given a
job. Quoted in Raphael Samuel, 'Comers
and Goers', in H.J. Dyos and Michael
Wolff, eds, The Victorian City: Images and Realities, 1973.
Activity
Imagine
that you are a merchant writing back to a salesman who has been trying to
persuade you to buy a new machine.
Explain in your letter what you have heard and why you do not wish to
invest in the new technology.
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Fig.9.Workers in an
iron works, north - east England, painting by William Bell Scott, 1861. Many artists from the late nineteenth century
began idealizing workers: they were shown suffering hardship and pain for the
cause of the nation.
Understandings.Page 111.
Fig.11 - A Spinning Jenny, a drawing by T.E.Nicholson, 1835.
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Then,by the end of the nineteenth century, weavers and other craftspeople faced yet another problem. Factories in India began production, flooding the market with machine - goods. How could weaving industries possibly survive?
Fig.15.Bombay harbor, a late - eighteenth - century drawing.Bombay and Calcutta grew as trading ports from the 1780s.This marked the decline of the old trading order and the growth of the colonial economy.
4.1.The Early Entrepreneurs.
5.The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth.
European Managing Agencies, which dominated industrial production in India, were interested in certain kinds of products, they established tea and coffee plantations, acquiring land at cheap rates from the colonial government, and they invested in mining, indigo and jute.
Most of these were products required primarily for export trade and not for sale in India. When Indian businessmen began setting up industries in the late nineteenth century, they avoided competing with Manchester goods in the Indian market. Since yarn was not an important part of British imports into India, the early cotton mills in India produced coarse cotton yarn (thread) rather than fabric. When yarn was imported it was only of the superior variety. The yarn produced in Indian spinning mills was used by handloom weavers in India or exported to China.
By the first decade of the twentieth century a series of changes affected the pattern of industrialization. As the swadeshi movement gathered momentum, nationalists mobilized people to boycott foreign cloth. Industrial groups organized themselves to protect their collective interests, pressurizing the government to increase tariff protection and grant other concessions.
From 1906, moreover, the export of Indian yarn to China declined since produce from Chinese and Japanese mills flooded the Chinese market. So industrialists in India began shifting from yarn to cloth production. Cotton piece goods production in India doubled between 1900 and 1912
Yet, till the First World War, industrial growth was slow.The war created a dramatic new situation With British mills busy with war production to meet the needs of the army,
Manchester imports into India
declined.
Suddenly, Indian mills had a vast home market to supply.As the war prolonged, Indian factories were called upon to supply war needs. jute bags, cloth for army uniforms, tents and leather boots, horse and mule saddles and a host of other items.New factories were set up and old
Fig.22 - The first office of the Madras Chamber of Commerce by the late nineteenth century merchants in different regions began meeting and forming chambers of commerce to regulate business and decide on issues of collective concern.
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Topic.The Head Jobber.
Home Assignment
a.Understand the contents.
b.Make the inside Questions/Answers.
c.Learn them.
d.Keep eyes over figures.
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Day4.Period 4.Page 110- 111.
Topic The Life of the Workers.
Vocabs.
Destitute - extremely
poor.
Wayfarers - a person who travels from place to place usually
by walking.
Wanderers - a person who travels aimlessly.
Foundling- an infant that has been abandoned by its parents
and is discovered and cared for by
others.
Slump - to sit or fall down suddenly.
Terms.
Spinning Jenny - Devised by James Hargreaves in 1764, this machine speeded up the spinning process and reduced labor demand. By turning one single wheel a worker could set in motion a number of spindles and spin several threads at the same time.
Understandings.Page.110
Hammers were produced and 45 kinds of
axes.These required human skill,not mchanical technology.
In Victorian
Britain,the upper classes - the aristocrats and the bourgeoisie - preferred
things produced by hand.Handmade
products came to symbolize refinement and class. They were better finished, individually
produced, and carefully designed.
Machine made goods were for export to the colonies.
In countries with labor shortage,
industrialists were keen on using mechanical power so that the need for human
labor can be minimized. This was the
case in nineteenth - century America.
Britain, however, had no problem hiring human hands.
2.1 Life of the Workers The abundance of
labor in the market affected the lives of workers.As news of possible jobs traveled to the
countryside, hundreds tramped to the cities.
The actual possibility of getting a job depended on existing networks of
friendship and kin relations.If you had
a relative or a friend in a factory, you were more likely to get a job
quickly.But not everyone had social connections. Many job seekers had to wait weeks, spending
nights under bridges or in night shelters.
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Fig.10. Houseless and Hungry, painting by Samuel
Luke Fildes,1874.This painting shows
the homeless in London applying for tickets to stay overnight in a
workhouse.These shelters were
maintained under the supervision of the Poor Law Commissioners for the
'destitute, wayfarers, wanderers and foundling.Staying in these workhouses was a humiliating experience: everyone was
subjected to a medical examination to see whether they were carrying disease,
their bodies were cleansed, and their clothes purified. They had to also do hard labor.
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Some stayed
in Night Refuges that were set up by private individuals, others went to the
Casual Wards maintained by the Poor Law Authorities.
Seasonality of work in many
industries meant prolonged periods without work. After the busy season was over, the poor were
on the streets again.Some returned to
the countryside after the winter, when the demand for labor in the rural areas
opened up in places.But most looked for
odd jobs, which till the mid - nineteenth century were difficult to find.
Wages increased somewhat in the early
nineteenth century. But they tell us
little about the welfare of the workers.The average figures hide the variations between trades and the
fluctuations from year to year.For
instance, when prices rose sharply during the prolonged Napoleonic War, the
real value of what the workers earned fell significantly, since the same wages
could now buy fewer things.
Moreover,
the income of workers depended not on the wage rate alone. What was also critical was the period of
employment the number of days of work determined the average daily income of
the workers. At the best of times till
the mid - nineteenth century, about 10 per cent of the urban population were
extremely poor. In periods of economic
slump, like the 1830s, the proportion of unemployed went up to anything between
35 and 75 per cent in different regions.
The fear of unemployment made workers hostile to the introduction of new
technology. When the Spinning Jenny was
introduced in
Source B
A magistrate reported in 1790 about an incident when he
was called in to protect a manufacturer's property from being attacked by
workers: From the depredations of a lawless banditti of colliers and their
wives, for the wives had lost their work
to spinning engines ... they advanced at first with much insolence, avowing
their intention of cutting to pieces the machine lately introduced in the
woollen manufacture; which they suppose,
if generally adopted, wilt lessen the demand for manual labor. The women became
clamorous.The men were more open to conviction and
after some expostulation were induced to desist from their purpose and retum
peaceably home. J.L. Hammond and B. Hammond, The Skilled Labourer
1760–1832, quoted in Maxine Berg, The Age of Manufactures.
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spindles spindles
Notice the
number of spindles that could be operated with one wheel.
Discuss Look
at Figs. 3, 7 and 11, then reread source
B. Explain why many workers were opposed to the use of the Spinning Jenny.
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Day5.Period 5.Page.112- 113.
Topic The Life of the Workers.
Topic The Life of the Workers.
Vocabs.
Understandings.Page.112.
Fig.12 - A shallow
underground railway being constructed in central London, Illustrated
Times,1868 from the 1850s railway stations began coming up all over London. This meant a demand for large numbers of
workers to dig tunnels, erect timber scaffolding, do the brick and iron works.Job seekers moved from one construction site
to another.
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the woollen industry, women
who survived on hand spinning began attacking the new machines.This conflict over the introduction of the
jenny continued for a long time.
After
the 1840s, building activity intensified in the cities, opening up more opportunities
of employment. Ronds were widened, new
railway stations came up, railway lines were extended, tunnels dug, drainage
and sewers laid, rivers embanked. The
number of workers employed in the transport industry doubled in the 1840s, and
doubled again in the subsequent 30 years.
Understandings.Page.113.
3.Industrialization in the Colonies.
Let us now move to India
to see how a colony industrialises.Once
again we will look not only at factory industries but also at the
non-mechanized sector.We will limit our
discussion primarily to textile industries
3.1 The Age of Indian Textiles
Before the age of machine industries, silk and cotton goods from India
dominated the international market in textiles.Coarser cottons were produced in many countries, but the finer varieties
often came from India.Armenian and
Persian merchants took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, eastern Persia and
Central Asia. Bales of fine textiles
were carried on camel back via the north - west frontier, through mountain
passes and across deserts.A vibrant sea
trade operated through the main pre - colonial ports. Surat on the Gujarat coast connected India to
the Gulf and Red Sea Ports; Masulipatam
on the Coromandel coast and Hoogly in Bengal had trade links with Southeast
Asian ports.
A variety of Indian
merchants and bankers were involved in this network of export trade - financing
production, carrying goods and further exporters. Supply merchants linked the port towns to the
inland regions.They gave advances to
weavers, procured the woven cloth from weaving villages, and carried the supply
to the ports. At the port, the big
shippers and export merchants had brokers who negotiated the price and bought
goods from the supply merchants operating inland.
By the 1750s this network, controlled by
Indian merchants, was breaking down.
The
European companies gradually gained power - first securing a variety of
concessions from local courts, then the monopoly rights to trade.This resulted in a decline of the old ports
of Surat and Hoogly through which local merchants had operated. Exports from these ports fell dramatically,
the credit that had financed the earlier trade began drying up, and the local
bankers slowly went bankrupt. In the
last years of the seventeenth century, the gross value of trade that passed
through Surat had been Rs 16 million.By the 1740s it had
slumped to Rs 3 million.
Activity
On a map of Asia, find and draw the sea and land
links of the textile trade from India to Central Asia, West Asia and Southeast
Asia.
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Day6.Period 6.Page.114- 115.
Topic The Life of the Workers.
Vocabs.
Sepoy - This is how the British pronounced the word sipahi, meaning an Indian soldier in the service of the British 115
Understandings.Page 114.
Topic The Life of the Workers.
Vocabs.
Sepoy - This is how the British pronounced the word sipahi, meaning an Indian soldier in the service of the British 115
Understandings.Page 114.
Fig.13 -The English
factory at Surat, a seventeenth - century drawing.While Surat and
Hoogly decayed, Bombay and
Calcutta grew.This shift from the old
ports to the new ones was an indicator of the growth of colonial power.Trade through the new ports came to be
controlled by European companies, and was carried in European ships.While many of the old trading houses
collapsed, those that wanted to survive had to now operate within a network
shaped by European trading companies.
How did these changes affect the life of weavers and other
artisans?
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3.2 What Happened to
Weavers?
The consolidation of East India
Company power after the 1760s did not initially lead to a decline in textile
exports from India British cotton industries had not yet expanded and Indian
fine textiles were in great demand in Europe.
So the company was keen on expanding textilc exports from India. Before establishing political power in Bengal and
Carnatic in the 1760s and 1770s, the East India Company had found it difficult
to ensure a regular supply of goods for export.The French, Dutch,
Fig.14 - A
weaver at work, Gujarat.
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Portuguese as well as the local traders competed in the
market to secure woven cloth. So the
weaver and supply merchants could bargain and try selling the produce to the
best buyer. In their letters back to
London, company officials continuously complained of difficulties of supply and
the high prices.
However, once the East India Company established political
power, it could assert a monopoly right to trade.It proceeded to develop a system of
management and control that would eliminate competition, control costs, and
ensure regular supplies of cotton and silk goods.This it did through a series of steps.
First: the company tried to eliminate the
existing traders and brokers connected with the cloth trade, and establish a
more direct control over the weaver. It
appointed a paid servant called the gomastha to supervise weavers, collect
supplies, and examine the quality of cloth.
Second: it prevented company weavers from dealing with other
buyers. One way of doing this was
through the system of advances. Once an
order was placed the weavers were given loans to purchase the raw material for
their production. Those who took loans
had to hand over the cloth they produced to the gomastha. They could not take it to any other
trader.
As loans flowed in and the
demand for fine textiles expanded, weavers eagerly took the advances, hoping to
earn more. Many weavers had small plots
of land which they had earlier cultivated along with weaving, and the produce
from this took care of their family needs.
Now they had to lease out the land and devote all their time to weaving,
weaving, in fact, required the labor of the entire family, with children and
women all engaged in different stages of the process.
Soon, however, in many weaving villages there
were reports of clashes between weavers and gomasthas.Earlier supply merchants had very often lived
within the weaving villages, and had a close relationship with the weavers, looking
after their needs and helping them in times of crisis.
The new gomasthas were outsiders, with no
long - term social link with the village.
They acted arrogantly, marched into villages with sepoys and peons, and
punished weavers for delays in supply - often beating and flogging them.
The weavers lost the space to bargain for
prices and sell to different buyers: the price they received from the Company
was miserably low and the loans they had accepted tied them to the Company.
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Day7.Period 7.Page.116- 117.
Topic The Life of the Workers.
Understandings.Page.116.
Topic The Life of the Workers.
Understandings.Page.116.
In many places in Carnatic and Bengal, weavers deserted
villages and migrated, setting up looms in other villages where they had some
family relation.Elsewhere, weavers
along with the village traders revolted, opposing the Company and its
officials.Over time many weavers began
refusing loans, closing down their workshops and taking to agricultural
labor. By the turn of the nineteenth
century, cotton weavers faced a new set of problems
3.3 Manchester Comes to
India
In 1772, Henry Patullo, a company official, had ventured to say that the
demand for Indian textiles could never reduce, since no other nation
produced goods of the same quality. Yet by the beginning of the nineteenth
century we see the beginning of a long decline of textile exports from
India. In 1811-12 piece - goods
accounted for 33 per cent of India's exports;
by 1850-51 it was no more than 3 per cent.
Why did this happen? What were its implications?
As cotton industries developed in England,
industrial groups began worrying about imports from other countries. They pressurized the government to impose import
duties on cotton textiles so that Manchester goods could sell in Britain
without facing any competition from outside.
At the same time industrialists persuaded the East India Company to sell
British manufactures in Indian markets as well.
Exports of British cotton goods increased dramatically in the early
nineteenth century.
At the end of the
eighteenth century there had been virtually no import of cotton piece - goods
into India. But by 1850 cotton piece -
goods constituted over 31 per cent of the value of Indian imports; and by the 1870s this figure was over 50 per
cent.
Cotton weavers in India thus faced
two problems at the same time their export market collapsed, and the local
market shrank, being glutted with Manchester imports. Produced by machines at lower costs, the
imported cotton goods were so cheap that weavers could not easily compete with
them.
By the 1850s, reports from most
weaving regions of India narrated stories of decline and desolation
By the
1860s, weavers faced a new problem. They
could not get sufficient supply of raw cotton of good quality.
Understandings.Page.117.
When the American Civil War broke out and cotton supllies from US were cut off,Britain turned to India.
As raw cotton export: from India increased, the price of raw cotton shot up. Weavers in India were starved of supplies and forced to buy raw cotton at exorbitant prices. In this, situation weaving could not pay.
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Fig.15.Bombay harbor, a late - eighteenth - century drawing.Bombay and Calcutta grew as trading ports from the 1780s.This marked the decline of the old trading order and the growth of the colonial economy.
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Day9.Period 9.Page.118-119.
Topic.The Factories Come Up.
Topic.The Factories Come Up.
Understandings.Page.118.
4 Factories Come Up
The first cotton mill in Bombay came up
in 1854 and it went into production two years later. By 1862 four mills were at work with 94,000
spindles and 2,150 looms.Around the
same time jute mills came up in Bengal, the first being set up in 1855 and another
one seven years later, in 1862. In north India, the Elgin Mill was started in
Kanpur in the 1860s, and a year later the first cotton mill of Ahmedabad was set up.By 1874, the first spinning and weaving mill
of Madras began production.Who set up
the industries? Where did the capital
come from? Who came to work in the mills?
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Industries were
set up in different regions by varying types of people.Let us see who they were.
The history of many business groups goes back to trade with China.From the late eighteenth century, as you have read in your book last year, the British in India began exporting opium to China and took tea from China to England.
Many Indians became junior players in this trade, providing finance, procuring supplies, and shipping consignments.Having earned through trade, some of these businessmen had visions of developing industrial enterprises in India.
In Bengal, Dwarkanath Tagore made his fortune in the China trade before he turned to industrial investment, setting up six joint - stock companies in the 1830s and 1840s. Tagore's enterprises sank along with those of others in the wider business crises of the 1840s, but later in the nineteenth century many of the China traders became successful industrialists.
In Bombay, Parsis like Dinshaw Petit and Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata who built huge industrial empires in India, accumulated their initial wealth partly from exports to China, and partly from raw cotton shipments to England. Seth Hukumchand, a Marwari businessman who set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917, also traded with China.So did the father as well as grandfather of the famous industrialist G.D. Birla.
Capital was accumulated through other trade nerworks.Some merchants from Madras traded with Burma while others had links with the Middle East and East Africa.There were yet other
The history of many business groups goes back to trade with China.From the late eighteenth century, as you have read in your book last year, the British in India began exporting opium to China and took tea from China to England.
Many Indians became junior players in this trade, providing finance, procuring supplies, and shipping consignments.Having earned through trade, some of these businessmen had visions of developing industrial enterprises in India.
In Bengal, Dwarkanath Tagore made his fortune in the China trade before he turned to industrial investment, setting up six joint - stock companies in the 1830s and 1840s. Tagore's enterprises sank along with those of others in the wider business crises of the 1840s, but later in the nineteenth century many of the China traders became successful industrialists.
In Bombay, Parsis like Dinshaw Petit and Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata who built huge industrial empires in India, accumulated their initial wealth partly from exports to China, and partly from raw cotton shipments to England. Seth Hukumchand, a Marwari businessman who set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917, also traded with China.So did the father as well as grandfather of the famous industrialist G.D. Birla.
Capital was accumulated through other trade nerworks.Some merchants from Madras traded with Burma while others had links with the Middle East and East Africa.There were yet other
Fig.16 - Jamsetjee
Jeejeebhoy.Jeejeebhoy was the son of a
Parsi weaver.Like many others of his
time, he was involved in the trade and shipping.He owned a large fleet of ships, but
competition from English and American shippers forced him to sell his ships by
the 1850s.
Fig.17 - Dwarkanath Tagore.Dwarkanath Tagore believed that India would
develop through westernisation and industrialisation.He invested in shipping, shipbuilding,
mining, banking, plantations and insurance.
Understandings.Page.119.
commercial groups, but they were not directly involved in
external trade. They operated within
India, carrying goods from one place to another, banking money, transferring
funds between cities, and financing traders.
When opportunities of investment in industries opened up, many of them
set up factories.
As colonial control over Indian trade tightened, the space within which Indian merchants could function became increasingly limited.They were barred from trading with Europe in manufactured goods, and had to export mostly raw materials and food grains - raw cotton, opium, wheat and indigo - required by the British.They were also gradually edged out of the shipping business.
Till the First World War, European Managing Agencies in fact controlled a large sector of Indian industries.Three of the biggest ones were Bird Heiglers & Co. , Andrew Yule, and Jardine Skinner & Co. These agencies mobilized capital, set up joint - stock companies and managed them.
In most instances Indian financiers provided the capital while the European agencies made all investment and business decisions. The European merchant - industrialists had their own chambers of commerce which Indian businessmen were not allowed to join.
4.2 Where Did the Workers Come From ?
Factories needed workers. With the expansion of factories, this demand increased. In 1901, there were 584,000 workers in Indian factories. By 1946 the number was over 2,436,000. Where did the workers come from?
In most industrial regions workers came from the districts around. Peasants and artisans who found no work in the village went to the industrial centers in search of work.
Over 50 per cent workers in the Bombay cotton industries in 1911 came from the neighboring district of Ratnagiri, while the mills of Kanpur got most of their textile hands from the villages within the district of Kanpur.
Most often millworkers moved between the
village and the city, returning to their village homes during harvests and
festivals.
Over time, as news of employment spread, workers travelled great distances in the hope of work in the mills. From the United Provinces, for instance, they went to work in the textile mills of Bombay and in the jute mills of Calcutta.
Fig.18 Partners in enterprise - J.N. Tata, R.D. Tata, Sir R.J. Tata, and Sir D.J. Tata
As colonial control over Indian trade tightened, the space within which Indian merchants could function became increasingly limited.They were barred from trading with Europe in manufactured goods, and had to export mostly raw materials and food grains - raw cotton, opium, wheat and indigo - required by the British.They were also gradually edged out of the shipping business.
Till the First World War, European Managing Agencies in fact controlled a large sector of Indian industries.Three of the biggest ones were Bird Heiglers & Co. , Andrew Yule, and Jardine Skinner & Co. These agencies mobilized capital, set up joint - stock companies and managed them.
In most instances Indian financiers provided the capital while the European agencies made all investment and business decisions. The European merchant - industrialists had their own chambers of commerce which Indian businessmen were not allowed to join.
4.2 Where Did the Workers Come From ?
Factories needed workers. With the expansion of factories, this demand increased. In 1901, there were 584,000 workers in Indian factories. By 1946 the number was over 2,436,000. Where did the workers come from?
In most industrial regions workers came from the districts around. Peasants and artisans who found no work in the village went to the industrial centers in search of work.
Over 50 per cent workers in the Bombay cotton industries in 1911 came from the neighboring district of Ratnagiri, while the mills of Kanpur got most of their textile hands from the villages within the district of Kanpur.
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Over time, as news of employment spread, workers travelled great distances in the hope of work in the mills. From the United Provinces, for instance, they went to work in the textile mills of Bombay and in the jute mills of Calcutta.
Fig.18 Partners in enterprise - J.N. Tata, R.D. Tata, Sir R.J. Tata, and Sir D.J. Tata
In 1912, J.N. Tata set up the
first iron and steel works in India at Jamshedpur. Iron and steel industries in India started
much
later than textiles. In colonial
India industrial machinery, railways and locomotives were mostly imported. So capital goods industries could not really
develop in any significant way till independence. The Age of Industrialisation
Fig.19 - Young workers of a Bombay mill, early twentieth century. When workers went back to their village homes, they liked dressing up.
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Fig.19 - Young workers of a Bombay mill, early twentieth century. When workers went back to their village homes, they liked dressing up.
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Day9.Period 9.Page.120-121.
Topic.The Head Jobber.
Undertandings.Page.120.
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Getting jobs was always difficult, even when mills
multiplied and the demand for workers increased.The numbers seeking work were always more
than the jobs available.Entry into the
mills was also restricted industrialists usually employed a jobber to get new
recruits. Very often the jobber was an
old and trusted worker. He got people
from his village, ensured them jobs, helped them settle in the city and
provided them money in times of crisis.
The jobber therefore became a person with some authority and power. He began demanding money and gifts for his
favor and controlling the lives of workers, the number of factory workers
increased over time. However, as you
will see, they were a small proportion of the total industrial workforce.
Source E. Vasant Parkar, who was once a millworker in Bombay, said: 'The workers would pay the jobbers money to get their sons work in the mill ... The mill worker was closely associated with his village, physically and emotionally. He would go home to cut the harvest
and for sowing. The Konkani would go home to cut the paddy
and the Ghati, the sugarcane. It was an
accepted practice for which the mills granted leave.'Meena Menon and Neera Adarkar, One Hundred
Years: One Hundred Voices, 2004.
Fig.20 - A head jobber. Notice how the posture and clothes emphasize the jobber's position of authority.
Fig.21 - Spinners at work in an Ahmedabad mill.Women worked mostly in the spinning departments
Source E. Vasant Parkar, who was once a millworker in Bombay, said: 'The workers would pay the jobbers money to get their sons work in the mill ... The mill worker was closely associated with his village, physically and emotionally. He would go home to cut the harvest
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Fig.20 - A head jobber. Notice how the posture and clothes emphasize the jobber's position of authority.
Fig.21 - Spinners at work in an Ahmedabad mill.Women worked mostly in the spinning departments
Source F Bhai Bhosle, a trade unionist of
Bombay, recollected his childhood in the 1930s and 1940s: 'In those days, the
shift was 10 hours - from 5 pm to 3 am - terrible working hours. My father worked for 35 years, he got the
asthma like disease and could not work any more ... Then my father went back to
village. Meena Menon and Neera Adarkar,
One Hundred Years: One Hundred Voices.
Understandings.Page.121.
Understandings.Page.121.
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5.The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth.
European Managing Agencies, which dominated industrial production in India, were interested in certain kinds of products, they established tea and coffee plantations, acquiring land at cheap rates from the colonial government, and they invested in mining, indigo and jute.
Most of these were products required primarily for export trade and not for sale in India. When Indian businessmen began setting up industries in the late nineteenth century, they avoided competing with Manchester goods in the Indian market. Since yarn was not an important part of British imports into India, the early cotton mills in India produced coarse cotton yarn (thread) rather than fabric. When yarn was imported it was only of the superior variety. The yarn produced in Indian spinning mills was used by handloom weavers in India or exported to China.
By the first decade of the twentieth century a series of changes affected the pattern of industrialization. As the swadeshi movement gathered momentum, nationalists mobilized people to boycott foreign cloth. Industrial groups organized themselves to protect their collective interests, pressurizing the government to increase tariff protection and grant other concessions.
From 1906, moreover, the export of Indian yarn to China declined since produce from Chinese and Japanese mills flooded the Chinese market. So industrialists in India began shifting from yarn to cloth production. Cotton piece goods production in India doubled between 1900 and 1912
Yet, till the First World War, industrial growth was slow.The war created a dramatic new situation With British mills busy with war production to meet the needs of the army,
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Suddenly, Indian mills had a vast home market to supply.As the war prolonged, Indian factories were called upon to supply war needs. jute bags, cloth for army uniforms, tents and leather boots, horse and mule saddles and a host of other items.New factories were set up and old
Fig.22 - The first office of the Madras Chamber of Commerce by the late nineteenth century merchants in different regions began meeting and forming chambers of commerce to regulate business and decide on issues of collective concern.
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Day10.Period 10.Page.122-123.Topic.The Head Jobber.
Vocabs.
Fly shuttle - It is a mechanical device used for weaving, moved by means of ropes and pullies. It places the horizontal threads (called the weft) into the verticle threads (called the warp). The invention of the fly shuttle made it possible for weavers to operate large looms and weave wide pieces of cloth.
Undertandings.Page.122.
ones ran multiple shifts. Many new workers were employed and everyone was made to work longer hours. Over the war years industrial production boomed
After the war, Manchester could never recapture its old position in the Indian market. Unable to modernize and compete with the US, Germany and Japan, the economy of Britain crumbled after the war. Cotton production collapsed and exports of cotton cloth from Britain fell dramatically.
Within the colonies, local industrialists gradually consolidated their position, substituting foreign manufactures and capturing the home market.
5.1 Small - scale Industries Predominate
While factory industries grew steadily after the war, large industries formed only a small segment of the economy. Most of them - about 67 per cent in 1911 - were located in Bengal and Bombay.
Over the rest of the country, small-scale production continued to predominate. Only a small proportion of the total industrial labor force worked in registered factories: 5 per cent in 1911 and 10 per cent in 1931.
The rest worked in small workshops and household units, often located in alleys and bylanes, invisible to the passer - by.
In fact, in some instances, handicrafts production actually expanded in the twentieth century. This is true even in the case of the handloom sector that we have discussed. While cheap machine - made thread wiped out the spinning industry in the nineteenth century, the weavers survived, despite problems. In the twentieth century, handloom cloth production expanded steadily: almost trebling between 1900 and 1940.
How did this happen?
This was partly because of technological changes. Handicrafts people adopt new technology if that helps them improve production without excessively pushing up costs. So, by the second decade of the twentieth century we find weavers using looms with a fly shuttle. This increased productivity per worker, speeded up production and reduced labor demand.
By 1941, over 35 per cent of handlooms in India were fitted with fly shuttles: in regions like Travancore, Madras, Mysore, Cochin, Bengal the proportion was 70 to 80 per cent.
There were several other small innovations that helped weavers improve their productivity and compete with the mill sector.
Fly shuttle - It is a mechanical device used for weaving, moved by means of ropes and pullies. It places the horizontal threads (called the weft) into the verticle threads (called the warp). The invention of the fly shuttle made it possible for weavers to operate large looms and weave wide pieces of cloth.
Undertandings.Page.122.
ones ran multiple shifts. Many new workers were employed and everyone was made to work longer hours. Over the war years industrial production boomed
After the war, Manchester could never recapture its old position in the Indian market. Unable to modernize and compete with the US, Germany and Japan, the economy of Britain crumbled after the war. Cotton production collapsed and exports of cotton cloth from Britain fell dramatically.
Within the colonies, local industrialists gradually consolidated their position, substituting foreign manufactures and capturing the home market.
5.1 Small - scale Industries Predominate
While factory industries grew steadily after the war, large industries formed only a small segment of the economy. Most of them - about 67 per cent in 1911 - were located in Bengal and Bombay.
Over the rest of the country, small-scale production continued to predominate. Only a small proportion of the total industrial labor force worked in registered factories: 5 per cent in 1911 and 10 per cent in 1931.
The rest worked in small workshops and household units, often located in alleys and bylanes, invisible to the passer - by.
In fact, in some instances, handicrafts production actually expanded in the twentieth century. This is true even in the case of the handloom sector that we have discussed. While cheap machine - made thread wiped out the spinning industry in the nineteenth century, the weavers survived, despite problems. In the twentieth century, handloom cloth production expanded steadily: almost trebling between 1900 and 1940.
How did this happen?
This was partly because of technological changes. Handicrafts people adopt new technology if that helps them improve production without excessively pushing up costs. So, by the second decade of the twentieth century we find weavers using looms with a fly shuttle. This increased productivity per worker, speeded up production and reduced labor demand.
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There were several other small innovations that helped weavers improve their productivity and compete with the mill sector.
Fig. 23 - A Hand - woven Cloth. The intricate designs of hand - woven cloth
could not be easily copied by the mills.
Understandings.Page.123.
Certain groups of weavers were in a better position than others to survive the competition with mill industries. Amongst weavers some produced coarse cloth while others wove finer varieties. The coarser cloth was bought by the poor and its demand fluctuated violently in times of bad harvests and famines, when the rural poor had little to eat, and their cash income disappeared, they could not possibly buy cloth.
The demand for the finer varieties bought by the well - to - do was more stable. The rich could buy these even when the poor starved. Famines did not affect the sale of Banarasi or Baluchari saris.
Moreover, as you have seen, mills could not imitate specialised weaves.Saris with woven borders, or the famous lungis and handkerchiefs of Madras, could not be easily displaced by mill production.
Weavers and other craftspeople who continued to expand production
through the twentieth century, did not necessarily prosper they lived hard
lives and worked long hours. Very often
the entire household - including all the women and children - had to work at
various stages of the production process.
But they were not simply remnants of past times in the age of factories. His life and labor was integral to the process of industrialization.
Fig.24 - Location of large - scale industries in India, 1931. The circles representing the size of industries in the different regions.
Home Assignment
Topic.Markets for Goods.
Understandings.Page.124.
Certain groups of weavers were in a better position than others to survive the competition with mill industries. Amongst weavers some produced coarse cloth while others wove finer varieties. The coarser cloth was bought by the poor and its demand fluctuated violently in times of bad harvests and famines, when the rural poor had little to eat, and their cash income disappeared, they could not possibly buy cloth.
The demand for the finer varieties bought by the well - to - do was more stable. The rich could buy these even when the poor starved. Famines did not affect the sale of Banarasi or Baluchari saris.
Moreover, as you have seen, mills could not imitate specialised weaves.Saris with woven borders, or the famous lungis and handkerchiefs of Madras, could not be easily displaced by mill production.
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But they were not simply remnants of past times in the age of factories. His life and labor was integral to the process of industrialization.
Fig.24 - Location of large - scale industries in India, 1931. The circles representing the size of industries in the different regions.
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Day11.Period 11.Page.124-125.Topic.Markets for Goods.
Understandings.Page.124.
6 Market for Goods
We have seen how British manufacturers attempted to take over the Indian market, and how Indian weavers and craftsmen, traders and industrialists opposed colonial controls, demanded tariff protection, created their own spaces, and tried to extend the market for their produce
But when new products are produced people have to be persuaded to buy them. They have to feel like using the product. How was this done?
One way in which new consumers are created is through advertisements. As you know, advertisements make products appear desirable and necessary. They try to shape the minds of people and create new needs.
Today we live in a world where advertisements surround us. They appear in newspapers, magazines, hoardings, street walls, television screens.
But if we look back into history we find that from the very beginning of the industrial age, advertisements have played a part in expanding the markets for products, and in shaping a new consumer culture.
When Manchester industrialists began selling cloths in India, they put labels on the cloth bundles. The label was needed to make the place of manufacture and the name of the company familiar to the buyer. The label was also to be a mark of quality. When buyers saw "MADE IN MANCHESTER 'written in bold on the label, they were expected to feel confident about buying the cloth. India and the contemporary world Fig. 26 (a) Fig. 26 (b) 1
We have seen how British manufacturers attempted to take over the Indian market, and how Indian weavers and craftsmen, traders and industrialists opposed colonial controls, demanded tariff protection, created their own spaces, and tried to extend the market for their produce
But when new products are produced people have to be persuaded to buy them. They have to feel like using the product. How was this done?
One way in which new consumers are created is through advertisements. As you know, advertisements make products appear desirable and necessary. They try to shape the minds of people and create new needs.
Today we live in a world where advertisements surround us. They appear in newspapers, magazines, hoardings, street walls, television screens.
But if we look back into history we find that from the very beginning of the industrial age, advertisements have played a part in expanding the markets for products, and in shaping a new consumer culture.
When Manchester industrialists began selling cloths in India, they put labels on the cloth bundles. The label was needed to make the place of manufacture and the name of the company familiar to the buyer. The label was also to be a mark of quality. When buyers saw "MADE IN MANCHESTER 'written in bold on the label, they were expected to feel confident about buying the cloth. India and the contemporary world Fig. 26 (a) Fig. 26 (b) 1
WOODWARDS GRIPE WATER Keeps baby Well
Fig.25 - Gripe Water calendar of 1928 by
M.V. Dhurandhar.
The image of baby Krishna was most commonly used to popularize baby products.
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The image of baby Krishna was most commonly used to popularize baby products.
Fig.26 (a) -
Manchester labels, early twentieth century. Images of numerous Indian gods and goddesses - Kartika, Lakshmi, Saraswati are shown in imported cloth labels approving the quality of the product being marketed.
Fig.26 (b) - Maharaja Ranjit Singh on a Manchester label. Historic figures are used to create respect for the product.
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Manchester labels, early twentieth century. Images of numerous Indian gods and goddesses - Kartika, Lakshmi, Saraswati are shown in imported cloth labels approving the quality of the product being marketed.
Fig.26 (b) - Maharaja Ranjit Singh on a Manchester label. Historic figures are used to create respect for the product.
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But labels did not only carry words and texts. They also carried images and were very often
beautifully illustrated.If we look at
these old labels, we can have some idea of the
mind of the manufacturers,
their calculations, and the way they appealed to the people.
Images of Indian gods and goddesses regularly appeared on these labels. It was as if the association with gods gave divine approval to the goods being sold. The imprinted image of Krishna or Saraswati was also intended to make the manufacture from a foreign land appear somewhat familiar to Indian people.
By the late nineteenth century, manufacturers were printing calendars to popularise their products.Unlike newspapers and magazines, calendars were used even by people who could not read.They were hung in tea shops and in poor people's homes just as much as in offices and middle - class apartments. And those who hung the calendars had to see the advertisements, day after day, through the year. In these calendars, once again, we see the figures of gods being used to sell new products.
Like the images of gods,
figures of important personages, of emperors and nawabs, adorned advertisement
and calendars. The message very often
seemed to say: if you respect the royal figure, then respect this product; when the product was being used by kings, or
produced under royal command, quality could not be questioned.
When Indian manufacturers advertised the nationalist message was clear and loud. If you care for the nation then buy products that Indians produce. Advertisements became a vehicle of the nationalist message of swadeshi.
Conclusion Clearly, the age of industries has meant major technological changes, growth of factories, and the making of a new industrial labor force. However, as you have seen, hand technology and small-scale production remained an important part of the industrial landscape.
Look again at Figs.1 and 2. What would you now say of the images they project?
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| Fig.26.a |
Images of Indian gods and goddesses regularly appeared on these labels. It was as if the association with gods gave divine approval to the goods being sold. The imprinted image of Krishna or Saraswati was also intended to make the manufacture from a foreign land appear somewhat familiar to Indian people.
By the late nineteenth century, manufacturers were printing calendars to popularise their products.Unlike newspapers and magazines, calendars were used even by people who could not read.They were hung in tea shops and in poor people's homes just as much as in offices and middle - class apartments. And those who hung the calendars had to see the advertisements, day after day, through the year. In these calendars, once again, we see the figures of gods being used to sell new products.
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| Fig.26.b |
When Indian manufacturers advertised the nationalist message was clear and loud. If you care for the nation then buy products that Indians produce. Advertisements became a vehicle of the nationalist message of swadeshi.
Conclusion Clearly, the age of industries has meant major technological changes, growth of factories, and the making of a new industrial labor force. However, as you have seen, hand technology and small-scale production remained an important part of the industrial landscape.
Look again at Figs.1 and 2. What would you now say of the images they project?
Fig.27 -
Sunlight soap calendar of 1934.
Here God Vishnu is shown bringing sunlight from across the skies.
Fig.28 - An Indian mill cloth label.
The goddess is shown offering cloth produced in an Ahmedabad mill, and asking people to use things made in India.
Home Assignment
Here God Vishnu is shown bringing sunlight from across the skies.
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The goddess is shown offering cloth produced in an Ahmedabad mill, and asking people to use things made in India.
Home Assignment
a.Understand the contents.
b.Make the inside Questions/Answers.
c.Learn them.
d.Keep eyes over figures. |
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