Chapter 21 Flashcards
Population growth in Britain France and Germany
France; 32 –> 36 million
Where the Industrial Revolution encourage Britain to invest
North and south America
Impact on cities due to urbanization
People move - stress on resources, unable to find houses/food – set up slums – London = dirty, disease – cholera, criminal activity
Emancipation of serfs in France Prussia Austria and Russia
France; 1739, Prussia; 1815, Austria: 1848, Russia; 1861
Causes and effects of Irish famine of 1845–1850
Causes; plantations, poor laws, blight, penal laws
Effects; evictions, The Great Hunger, Emigration, 8 - 4.5 Million
Results of railway improvements consumer economy
Travel across international borders, migration – people/goods (transportation), environmental, Capital goods rather than consumer goods, consumer prices went up
Limits of workers in the new labor marketplace
Laborers said no say in quality/quantity/market of product
Proletarianization
19th-century industrial wage labor force
Chartist reform movement/measures
British labor movement, against industry/proletariat, protect crafts/wages, peaceful, Luddites = not peaceful
British Chartism
First large-scale working-class movement, People’s charter, proletariat
Purpose behind construction of the Crystal Palace
Show off new industry, compatible with other things, unite countries
Relationship between husbands and wives and early factories
Wives and children = assistant
English Factory Act of 1833
99; age <9, two hours of education for children
Work hours after 1847
Nine hours a day only for everyone
Classes which experienced division of labor to gender specific roles
Woman = married – now domestic homemaker, single – workforce Men = breadwinners children = assets
Requirements of new jobs for woman in textile factories
Single, paid less, less skilled jobs
Woman employment in France
Textiles