Tag: work, life and leisure during industrial revolution

A society that has similar kinds of people, especially where there are no significant ethnic differences is called as a homogeneous society. Germany and Sweden were highly homogeneous at one point of time.

The economic policies pursued by the colonial government in India were concerned more with the protection of the economic interests of their home country than with the development of the Indian economy. Such policies brought about a fundamental change in the structure of the Indian economy i.e., transforming the country into a supplier of raw materials and consumer of finished industrial products from Britain. 

Bombay was handed over to the British as part of the dowry when King Charles II of England married the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza in 1661.

The very first section of the Underground in the world opened on 10 January 1863 between Paddington and Farrington Street in London. On that day 10,000 passengers were carried, with trains running every ten minutes.

Private landlord- A private landlord can increase his earning by renting out tenements. This was the case during the later part of nineteenth century and early twentieth century in London. The situation was same in Bombay during the early twentieth century.

During the War years, many women got employment in the factories because most of the men were busy at the battlefronts. Once the War was over, women gradually lost their jobs. Most of them were forced to household duties. Some women began to start tailoring, washing and matchbox making to earn some money.

The poor sanitary conditions in one-room tenements posed a threat of epidemics. Moreover, such houses were also potential fire hazards. To keep the city safe from epidemics and fire, the well-off Londoners supported the need to build housing for the poor in the nineteenth century.

Most of the workers in the film industry themselves were migrants from various parts of the country. They probably better understood the problems of migrants. This is the reason that a number of Bombay films were about the lives of migrants.

Baron Haussman was the town planner who tried to build a perfect city of Paris. In the process, a large number of people were displaced. Al though it resulted in the development of beautiful city, but it ended up alienating a lot of people in the process.

The growth of trade in cotton and opium, the establishment of textile mills, and the expansion of railways were all significant factors that contributed to the rapid population growth of Bombay in the mid-nineteenth century.