Chapter 3 HISTORY OF GLOBAL MARKET INTEGRATION Flashcards
-people learned how to domesticate plants and animals,
Farming helped societies
build surpluses, meaning, not everyone had to spend their time producing food.
Agricultural Revolution.
-e rise of industry came new economic tools, like steam
engines, manufacturing, and mass production.
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1800s)
popped
up and changed how work functioned.
Factories
True or False
In industial revolution productivity went up, standards of
living rose, and people had access to a wider variety of goods due
to mass production
True
The workers in the factories – who were mainly poor
women and children
As a result, 19th century industrialists were known as
– with more productivity came greater wealth, but
also greater economic inequality.
robber barons
In the late 19th century, what group began to form.
labor
unions
These organizations of workers sought
to improve wages and working conditions through collective
action, strikes, and negotiations.
labor unions
labor unions gave way for minimum wage laws,
reasonable working hours, and regulations to protect the
safety of workers.
Inspired by Marxist
principles,
is a system in which all natural resources
and means of production are privately owned. It
emphasizes profit maximization and competition as the
main drivers of efficiency. (private ownership)
Capitalism
Who is This is what economist in the 1770s called the “invisible hand”
Adam Smith
The idea is that if one leaves a capitalist economy alone, consumers
will regulate things themselves by selecting goods and services that provide
best value.
Invisible hand
– the means of production are under collective ownership. It
rejects capitalism’s private property and hands-off approaches. Instead, in
socialism, property is owned by the government and allocated to all citizens,
not only those with money to afford it. Thus, the government plays an even
larger role in socialism. (public or government ownership)
SOCIALISM
This is marx hope for In practice, this has not played out in countries that have
modeled their economies on socialism, like Cuba, North Korea,
China, and the USSR. Why?
Marx hoped that as economic differences vanished in
communist society, the government would simply wither and
disappear, but that never happened. If anything, the opposite did
has reduced the
role of human labor and shifted it from a manufacturing-based economy to one that
is based on service work and the production of ideas rather than goods.
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