today I received an email from my home track club in Belgium. That the not even one year old baby dauther of one of my ex-teammates and the granddauther of my dad's coach has past away after a week of fighting for her life due to a sudden sickness.
a little Love epiloge from my sweety I want to share with you
Memorys Sand Found on the Beach
As I stand there on the damp beach sand with you holding my hand I can feel the pulse in your embrace and your heart as it races with mine in a hearts fluttering evaluation into love.I feel your cold fingers as they seem to always get cold in the slightly cold breeze that blows in from the oceans calm exterior. Your finger tips have a touch that I feel and know as they seem to indent a feeling into my hand as our footsteps indent a path that we can follow back. I then think to myself as I slowly brush your arm what a great thing I have here.I feel the goose bumps on your arm as you still seem to find a chill from even this loving embrace. But these goose bumps are not those of fear or being cold, but of a feeling that involves your whole body in excitement and love. As I hold your hand and brush your arm with my other hand I feel a feeling over me and it makes me slowly turn you into my direction so that you face me. Its that Moment that all stands still, the moon seems to gleam off the water and off your face as it brings out every magical detail in your smile.This however is no ordinary smile that you give to show you are pleased.Its a long of satisfaction that covers the smile beneath, because you see in anticipation to what will come. Your lips seem to release as they grow soft with excitement, waiting to pleasure the kiss. I then slowly lean forward as I close my eyes but yet inside I can feel your reaction.As the lips grow closer together within only millimeters apart, I feel your sweet breath and the smile that is arousing from within.That smile that was covered with satisfaction then suddenly comes out with a hint of arousal and excitement as our lips connect.As we stand there in the sand and kiss, the feel of carefree and love, embraces us both.As I slowly pull away I open my eyes to see yours are still closed with anticipation for more. Then you open them to me saying softly, I love you!The sudden smile on your face lights up my heart as I hold your hand ever more closely.I then turn around to continue on our walk down the moon lit beach.Then as we walk another 20 meters or so, we glance behind to see the memory that we left in the sand from yet another magical moment with you.
Love you babe and forever yours XXXXXXxxxxxxxxxxxx ..
Just some more information I looked up on the internet about the Industrial revolution in Great Britain. It are namely the main categories we touched upon in class. Enjoy!
The industrial revolution is the name given to changes occurring in the economy and societyof Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, changes which, in different forms, have since spread to many other parts of the globe. The term derives from the comparison which contemporaries drew with the fundamental changes of the French revolution. Although one can find the origins of industrialisation in earlier centuries and although the changes were at a very incomplete stage by the mid nineteenth century, an unprecedented shift was underway which was to change the nature of human society for ever. We live today with its global consequences both the benefits to mankind (in higher living standards and life expectancy for many) but also with its darker side (the inequities and political tensions of capitalist world development, and the threat of ecological disaster).
Breaking through the pre-industrial barriers to growth
The industrial revolution certainly saw some dramatic changes in the economy and society of Britain. There was a huge increase in the numbers of people employed in industrial manufacturing, making goods of all kinds, but especially textiles, iron goods, metal wares and pottery, for both overseas and domestic markets. More of the working population also came to live and work in towns and cities in occupations such as petty trading, retailing, transport and domestic service as well as manufacturing. A smaller and smaller proportion of the working population, less than a third by the end of our period, came to live in the countryside and get their living from the land. In the early eighteenth century more than two thirds of the labour force had been in agriculture. Towns and cities, including relatively new centres of population and trade grew at an unprecedented rate, spurred by the high rates of population growth that accompanied industrialisation. Population growth spurts had happened in earlier centuries but a unique change occurred at this time because such growth did not usher in mass starvation or major increases in disease or mortality (such as had occurred during the Black Death in the 14th century, for example). During and after the industrial revolution, for the first time in history, population growth and economic growth were able to occur together over the long term and without the former snuffing out the latter. This is why the industrial revolution was such a watershed. The pre-industrial limits to both population growth and economic growth were destroyed.
The nature of the transformation
Population growth was sustained because the economy was expanding. Opportunities for paid work were increasing and the production and distribution of foodstuffs was slowly growing more responsive to the nation's needs. Very significant improvements in the organisation and technologies of production of manufactured goods and of foodstuffs and raw materials such as coal and iron ore resulted in important increases in productivity so that more could be produced by each worker. It was these changes in organisation and technology which underpinned the industrial revolution. The changes were dramatic but not evenly spread: some sectors such as cotton textiles witnessed revolutionary changes whilst others continued with more traditional methods. Some trades and regions went into decline whilst others flourished. Overall, however, by the second quarter of the nineteenth century, an industrial society had emerged. This industrial society was different from what had gone before because it was based upon inorganic rather than organic sources of energy and raw materials, that is upon coal and iron rather than upon agricultural raw materials, water or muscle power. It was a society in which machinery and steam power were used as never before, where the bulk of the population lived and worked in towns and cities, and where the way of life of the mass of the population had been altered for ever.
Innovations and the expansion of the market for manufactured goods
Several industrial sectors, most notably textiles and iron-making adopted revolutionary new technologies of production which raised productivity and led to a marked lowering of prices. This encouraged people to buy more manufactured goods instead of making them for themselves. People were able to buy more because of the expansion of wage earning in the economy. In addition, new products and designs made manufactured goods attractive to a wider range of consumers. Modernmarketing and sales techniques, such as newspaper advertising, travelling salesmen and growing numbers of retail shops further encouraged what some historians have termed 'a consumer revolution'. Increasing demand for goods, and the supply of more varied and cheaper products interacted to create a dynamic economic expansion.
Technological innovations, rising productivity and innovations in design and quality also made British manufactures cheaper and more attractive in export markets. British exports to Europe and the Americas rose dramatically and this in turn helped to pay for imports of food and raw materials that were vital to sustaining the industrial economy. Britain's dominant role in international trade at this time was boosted by state policy, war, and imperial expansion. The trade in slaves between West Africa and the Americas, which Britain dominated in the eighteenth century, played an important role in underpinning the growth of trans-Atlantic and other exchanges in which raw materials such as cotton, and increasingly popular groceries such as sugar, tobacco and coffee, were imported and manufactured goods were exported.
Risk, uncertainty and the role of the family firm
The decades of the industrial revolution were turbulent and volatile: markets were constantly changing under the impact of war, blockade and trade depressions. Opportunities expanded but risks were high because commercial information was poor and business conditions unpredictable. The many heroic success stories of entrepreneurs, families and firms during the industrial revolution are therefore matched with as many, if not more, examples of bankruptcy and failure. Very few giant firms emerged. In the risky and uncertain business climate, family firms predominated because personal and family relationships, and social networks, provided the levels of trust and confidence necessary for business viability and success. Such
familial and social networks were often centred around localised religious groups whose members met regularly at church or chapel. Commitment to roles in local government and local charities and to membership of gentleman's clubs often served further to unite groups of businessmen and their relationships were frequently cemented by the intermarriage of their daughters and sons.
Today was a weird day. The sun was out so beautifully, but the strong wind makes it so cold I'm happy I got an appointment on Thursday at the chiropractor. Hopefully he can fix my back some and put my hips straight. I really had a trouble finding some good sleep this night, because I didn't take any of my pain relief drugs. Ooh well, this evening I'll go to practice anyhow, because I really want to compete this Saturday.
Besides all that just hanging around as usual and working for school and missing my babe
Surf the internet or look through your books and find pictures, photographs and/or cartoons which describe some aspect of work and or the industrial revolution/society.
You can also find videos (e.g. from YouTube)
Publish the picture/s and/or video/s on your blog.
You can write a caption.
Write down a short comment to say why you chose the picture/s.
Post your picture/s or video/s to your blog.
Pictures
Spinning Jenny. Source: Mary Evans Picture Library
Of course as a female I like this picture, even though I would never apply for this job. But to me it symbolises the appreciation of the womans role in work. How she was accepted to earn a living as well. Im not a feminist, but its because of these women, we are able to study for a career and go and work.
This cartoon is a good representation of how workers were to be hard labour slaves. Nowadays men and women stay home when they just have a cold, NO WAY! this was the case during the Industrial revolution. Working was the message. Injuries, sickness or anything else didnt matter. What only matter was that you produced for your boss.
I like this picture because it tells us more then one thing. For example it describes how greedy the managers were during that time. The promised the would repay all accidents which happened in the factory, but they always found a way to get out of it. Secondly, when the men came back from the War and started to work in the factories again, they werent all to happy with the working female. No real records of this are written, and normally the womens and mens working places were separately, but for sure some women were being disabused in these factories.
What always touches my heart are the next two cartoons. I know that nowadays we are really trying to abandon all sorts of child labour, but I think this can never or never will be the case. Children will always be abused to do labour in poor working/living conditions against low wages. Sadly enough it are most of the materials, clothes and others we are using.
Children had/have to go and work as well to increase the income of a family to buy the needed supplements, to be able to survive. Education/ proper schooling was out of the question.
ðIndustrial revolution: journey through the eyes of children
ðNice capture of the childrens life throughout the industrial revolution. How they were abused to work to gain money for the poor families but still found the time to play with their friends.Really moving and well explained with real pictures and cartoons.
ðFunny BBC history episode about child labour during the Industrial revolution. Nice how they really play it and use kids to represent a brief and sad history. Very nice and useful to use in class.
Using Keith Grints Chapter 2 as reference identify the major differences between pre-industrial and industrial society.
The research question is How did work change society after the Industrial Revolution?.
Post your group answer in your blog.
Group tasks: How did life change before and after the industrial revolution?
Before the Industrial Revolution all work was done by hand, or perhaps with the assistance of a horse or buffalo. People lived close to their work and their farms.
The opening of factories, mines, steam engines and railroads meant that people could produce more yet work fewer hours. They were able to move off farms and into towns. Society moved from a system that still used bartering to one that depended more on cash.
THE SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECT OF WORK
Grint defines work like a social activity. But we can say that in the Pre- Industrial period work concerned just the family and sometimes the neighbours but it was the only sociological aspect. While in Post Industrial Era Work becomes something based on world social relationships, because this is the time in which work get in MARKET, the world one.
References to the text:
1)Role of women
Before the industrial revolution the women were expected to work on the land together with the rest of the family and workmen. During the revolution, the women were not allowed in the factories. The housewife was being created. The breadwinners were more important in society. Later on we notice that women and children could work in factories, in the so called non-heavy labour factories like cotton factories were they had to handle the machines. Mostly this was because the men were expected to go to work and the factories needed labour forces. When the men returned form the war it was a quite difficult time at the household. Because the women had taken over the work of the men and they had been proven to be equal. Now all of a sudden they have to give up that. (references to the movie DAENS)
Grint: THE WAR p.3
Today in Post Industrial Era the WAR doesnt change your life, your work. We arent involved in War.
Besides that we also see a that before we had the Country Woman and now we have the City Woman.
The city wife has to do two things, when her husband comes back from work and he was being abusedat workshe has to comfort him as well and do her home tasks.
References Grint:THE DIVISION OF WORK
P.10 and the movie: Modern Times- Charlie Chaplin
Pre Industrial: No specialization everyone can help the family and can do the work.
Industrial: a scientific strict specialisation
2)Family structure
Like said before the entire family was expected to work on the land. The family lived within the property. When the revolution started we see that the men move to the big cities to work in the factory, were they were promised good working conditions and a good salary for that time. The rest of the family stayed home to work on the land.
3)Urban city - City move (urbanisation)
When the industrial revolution really set forward, we see that the entire family moved to the cities and left their country homes to go and live in poor living conditions at the city. They all lived in what we call industrial towns. The big city movement started. We also noticed that from this moment on the factories were employing as well men as women and even children.
4)Children at work
Children were being used in the factories as well. Although this wasnt allowed by the government, it was something natural. The children had to work for their families so they could pay all the bills and buy food. They were required to do the small, little things at the factories, were hired to clean the chimneys and others.
5)Machinery
The coming up of the machinery made that also women could start working at the factories to handle them. The machines replaced the labour of the men, whom the employees had to pay much. The women were loved at that time, because the employees didnt had to pay them that much as men, because they were considered as less worth working powers. Therefore the men could go back home and work on their land with also newly invented machinery to make the hard work lighter.
6)9 to 5 work
When as before the people went to work on the land at random times, a set working time was being set. The well-know 9 to 5 work was being set. This structured the lives of the people during that time.
Grint: THE IDEA OF TIME
7)Agriculture => capitalism
The most important thing is that a life of agriculture was being replaced by one that consisted of capitalism and industrial work.
8)FROM OWNER TO SLAVES
Pre-industrial: This is mine, I work for something that its my propriety.
Industrial: I work for someone that works for someone else. I can lose my job.
9)FROM PRODUCERS&CONSUMERS TO PRODUCERS WITHOUT POSSIBILITY TO CONSUME PRODUCTS.
10)PUBLIC AND PPRIVATE SPHERE p.20
Pre-industrial: The private and the public sphere stayed together.
Industrial: a strict separation from Public arena in which the worker is exploited, alienated from himself, his personality, and the Private arena in which He is angry, sad, he vents his frustrations from the public arena and in which he cant have and cant enjoy prizes for his work.
11)THE TRADE UNIONS NEED
During the Industrial Revolution with all changes that its involved, Workers started to feel the need to create trade unions against capitalists.
Pre Industrial: NO COMMON CONSCIOUSNESS because No common problems.
Industrial: The born of a common consciousness against the Common exploitation.
