Industrial revolution
Industrial revolution occurs through invention and innovation, enterprises substituted machinery for human labor and by using new chemical and metallurgical process harnessed new forms of energy to fuel production. This resulted in the emergence of factories with large concentrations of workers in an interdependent production process that required a hierarchy style of management and a clear division of labor.
Definitions
According to Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining by Michael R. Carrell and Christina Heavrin (10th edition),
- Industrial revolution. Through invention and innovation, enterprises substituted machinery for human labor and by using new chemical and metallurgical process harnessed new forms of energy to fuel production. This resulted in the emergence of factories with large concentrations of workers in an interdependent production process that required a hierarchy style of management and a clear division of labor.
Related concepts
- Labor relations. The systematic study of attitudes, motivations, and behaviors which two or more job-market actors assume toward each another.
