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1765 James Hargreaves’ spinning jenny The role of urbanization in transforming cultural values and social relationships

In 1765, James Hargreaves introduced the spinning jenny to the new transforming societies, providing a peak at the industrial development to come. His spinning jenny was founded on the idea to increase output of manufactured goods. It was simple and inexpensive, but brought a change not only to work but also culture. Use of the spinning jenny allowed the worker to make multiple threads at once. Women became much more efficient in the trade than men. Males couldn’t keep up with women like they had before its invention. This brought about much more separation in the traditional family working unit. Family work began to break up setting the tone for factories in later years and the division of labor in the work force. Mckay, Hill, Buckler, John, Bennet, John. //A History of Western Society//. 7. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.