Chapter 21 Flashcards
industrialization, drove changes in
- labor practices
- economic ideologies
- emergences a new working working class of people
- the mass migration of laborers to the urban centers
led to the key inventions which drove the development of the industrial revolution
textile industry
a scottish engineer, developed an efficient steam engine in 1776
james watt
england became the first site of the industrial revolution for 3 key factors
•private investment capital form overseas trade and commercial profits
•access to raw materials, namely cotton
•necessary natural resources at home such as coal and iron
working class refers to
laborers in new factories
labor union goals will always be
•safe and sanitary working conditions
•a decent wage
•standard work week
urbanization
the growth of towns and cities due to the movement of people from rural to urban areas
because people did not understand the causes of cholera and typhus epidemics
authorities in most europeans countries set up public health agencies to coordinate and study sanitation conditions in cities
in the 1830’s cities half the populations depended on what to make ends meet
public welfare, charity, criminality
charles dickens book reflect the difficult times
•oliver twist
•a christmas carol
reformers depicted the lower classes as
“drunken disorderly and dangerously lacking in sexual self-control”
a coherent set of beliefs about the key the social and political order should be organized
ideology
a people derive their identities from their nations, the most potent of all the new ideologies
nationalism
socialism
social political and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources essential to society
an ideology that advocates for the
elimination abolition of private property in favor of communal ownership
in 1848 publish the communist manifesto
karl marx and friedrich engles
according to marx class inequality (the means of production)
the haves versus the have nots
marx and engle envisioned workers
taking over the means of production and the eventual development of a communist state
charles darwin, english naturalist in 1859
on the origin of species
primary mechanism of evolution
natural selection
darwin’s theory primarily applies to
plants and animals
theory, whole heartedly embraced it as undisputed fact
the academically elite
without what would morality is now more fluid
absolutes of christianity
the revolutions of 1848
food shortages, overpopulation, and unemployment