Currently, history books point mainly to 1750 as the birth year of the Industrial Revolution. Industrialization began in England and eventually spread to the rest of Europe around 1850. However, scientists are now reconsidering this. Scientist Leigh Shaw-Taylor help with the research. He explains: “For the research, we categoriz and mapp centuries of employment data. This shows that we ne to rewrite the history books. We found that the real transition (from farming, .) to making goods happen 100 years earlier.” For the research, the scientists creat an interactive website call.
Nation of Makers
The findings of this study are the result of a research project that has been running for over 20 years, call The Occupational Structure of Britain 1379-1911 . The ultimate goal of this research project is to provide a complete picture whatsapp database of the changes in employment over the centuries. For this study, researchers specifically look at the period from 1600 to 1800. The lion’s share of the data comes from over two million wills and estates. These documents generally contain three key elements: the place of residence of the deceas, the occupation that they had and the year in which they di. In addition, 2.5 million baptismal certificates from the 19th century were also examin, when it was mandatory to also record the father’s occupation on the baptismal certificate.
The results of the study allow for a number
Of interesting conclusions to be drawn. By far the most important conclusion is that the great transition from the agricultural ឥទ្ធិពលនៃសម្លេងលើម៉ាកយីហោ៖ យុទ្ធសាស្ត្រទីផ្សារដើម្បីលេចធ្លោនៅក្នុងទីផ្សារ sector to the secondary sector mainly took place between 1600 and 1700 – and did not start in 1750. For example, the percentage of British men working in agriculture had already decreas significantly in the seventeenth century: in 1600, 64% of all ar numbers British men work in agriculture, in 1740 this had dropp to just 42%. At the same time, there was a trend for many men to switch to jobs that mainly involv producing goods. The Unit Kingdom was already a nation of makers in 1700.”
