Industrial Revolution
Across
- 2. workers or working-class
- 4. those who make and sell goods and services
- 7. also known as a cottage industry
- 8. those who buy and use goods and services
- 12. a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
- 13. an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership
- 14. the population shift from rural to urban areas
- 15. a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist known for inventing different types of steam engine that helped start the Industrial Revolution
- 16. economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism
- 19. a fundamental concept within economics and is primarily used to describe the price and availability of commodities
- 20. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
- 21. market system operating free from government intervention
Down
- 1. the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines.
- 3. freedom deciding what to buy, where to work and what to make
- 5. a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization
- 6. a machine for spinning with more than one spindle at a time, patented by James Hargreaves in 1770
- 9. an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment
- 10. the manufacturing of large quantities of standardized products
- 11. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
- 17. a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy
- 18. a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist