Industrial Rev. test Flashcards
enclosure movement
-villages shrunk -> cities grew
-farm output -> profits up, less workers
People moved to cities
crop rotation
changing what you harvest every season, for the nutrients in the soil
population boom
englands pop. up to 5 mil. in 1700 to 9 mil. in 1800
death rates down, less famine, better hygiene and sanitation
Luddites
against machines, broke machines
labor unions
were made illegal, had to be a secret
Growth of middle class from
child labor laws
Agricultural Rev.
1st- 11,000 years ago= farms, domestic animals
2nd- 300 years ago = quality and quantity
Putting out (domestic) system
Girls work at home, then moved to factories
Charles dickens
- Hated the industrial rev
- Thinks of factory people as “hands”, dehumanizes them
- Facts can’t predict people
Early industries of the 1700’s
Started in England, with textiles
Capitalism
- Private ownership
- more goods at lower prices
- Adam smith, David Ricardo
Interchangeable
Make all parts equal, can take apart and put back together
Collective bargaining
Unions, power of numbers
Life of the working class
- Worked long hard hours for minimal pay
- 12-14 hour shifts
- children worked
Laissez-faire/ economics
- hands off
- gov. Shouldn’t interfere in the country
- free market=capitalism
- wealth and means of producing it are privately owned
Utilitarianism
- advocate by British philosopher/ economist Jeremy Bentham
- goal of society=greatest happiness for the greatest number
- gov. Needs to get involved on certain equations
What does john Stuart believe?
Gov should help working class; they need to vote to enact reforms
Socialism
-People as a whole own and operate the means of production: farms, factories
-no fighting between rich and poor
-No competition to do work
Utopians, Thomas more
Proleteriat
The “have-nots”, work in the factories
Bourgeoisie
The “haves”, the owners
Communism
Gov. Led by small elite controlled economic and political life
No social classes
Not work as hard, automatically get anything
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Wrote the communist manifesto
What is communism
A breed of socialism
Dialectical
Spinning mule
Samuel Crompton
Sound cotton and yarn