8.2 Social issue

Question 1

What did men and women have to do in order to survive

Answer 1

work

Question 2

What is the main goal of a capitalist system

Answer 2

to make money

Question 3

what was tough for workers during the age of citizens and steam engines

Answer 3

The living and working conditions

Question 4

Bad living conditions of factory workers

Answer 4

• 14 hour work days
• lung diseases
• people got hurt or died
• minimal wages

Question 5

Why did this lead to the emergence of political views such as socialism

Answer 5

• a lot of people were suffering

Question 6

Charles Dickens

Answer 6

• 11 years old when he had to work in a factory
• parents had debt
• father was sent to prison bc of debt –> lived in the streets
• caused him to write books that describes his hard life

Question 7

Robert owen

Answer 7

• factory owner
• had the vision to improve working enviorment
• workers wre paide higher wages
• reduced the workers working hours to 8
• built them good houses
• children could go to school
• no drunkness and poverty
• founder of socialism

Question 8

Karl Marx

Answer 8

German philosopher
- in his book it describes the revolution of labourers and to stop the abuse of capitalism

Question 9

Ferdinand Domela Nieuwhuis

Answer 9

Important dutch socialist leader
- helped implement social laws in nl
- funeral was attened by 12k workers

Question 10

Samuel van Houten

Answer 10

Liberal politician
- made the childrens law

Question 11

Difference in new class system

Answer 11

• Oliver twists –> describes the life of the poor kids
• social difference –> employer and employee
• ## Factory owners became rich

Question 12

Profit

Answer 12

• employers used profit to invest in their companies
• also used profit for their comfortable living
• at first hardly inresistance
• many belived god made the world this way

Question 13

Tough life for labourers

Answer 13

• tough life bc of the physical hard labour they had to do
• workdays normally lasted more than 14 hours
• working behind machines caused faint of hunger, exhaustion, illness, drunkness, exhaustion
• bc of the effects it had there were a lot of accidents (ppl lost hands, got burned, dies)
• Factories was an unsaf enviorment –> filled w/ soot that damaged lungs
• hard to find a job

Question 14

Socialism

Answer 14

• socialist belive life could be more perfect if the goverment made people more equal
• at the beginning the government did not protect the poor

Question 15

First trade union and labour laws

Answer 15

• influenced by socialist views
• People started to unite in trade union
• ## one of the weapons they used was a strike

Question 16

The social issue

Answer 16

• issue did not remain unnoticed by politicians
• they felt like they had to find a solution to this social issue
• commissions were sent to factories to check the condition
• in nl social laws were made to help the poor (Poverty law of 1854 to defend the rights of the workers)
• In 1874, ‘the Children’s law of van Houten’ was introduced

Question 17

Aim of socialism

Answer 17

Protection thru laws –> improve workers live’s –> more equal society