Factors Flashcards
Growth of industrialisation
Government attitudes (laissez/non-laissez faire)
Growth of Banking
Growth of middle class
Geographical diversity/transport
Industrialisation adversely affect lives?
Working Conditions
Living Conditions
Women + Children
Consequences of Industrialisation
Growth of Banking
Government Reforms
Living & Working Conditions
Growth of Banking
More commercially minded nation
Government policies
Middle class
Landed gentry
Growth reform before 1832
Middle class
Riots and Unrest
Parliament’s Unwillingness to modernise
French Revolution & Thomas Paine
Growth reform after 1832
Legacy of 1832 Reform Act
Actions of political parties
Pressure groups
External factors- Civil War, Electoral Map
Consequences of reform
Effects of representation, electorate, changes to political parties, (for 1832) growing agitation
Chartist failure
Petitions
Violence
Internal Issues
Content People/Government action
Growth of Trade Unions
Factory System, Protection for Workers, Government Policies, External Factors (French Revolution and War in 1793)
Successes of trade unions
Early Unions
The Grand National
New Model Unions
1868 Trades Union Congress
Effectiveness of union organisation
Internal organisation, Relationship with government, Organisation of Strike Action
Attitudes shaping poor relief
Punishment, Growth of charity, Cost, Positive Government Concern
Individuals- poverty
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Mayhew, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Samuel Smiles