key concepts chapter 7 Flashcards
Industrial revolution
The fast paced change between manual production to mechanical production of goods that had enormous social-economic consequences.
Socialism
Political philosophy that devoted to creating equality between classes and orders.
Liberalism
A political philosophy in which individual freedom is at front and centre.
Nationalism
Love for one’s country or people.
Confessionalism
A political-societal movement that has the (Christian) faith as its starting point.
Feminism
A political-societal movement that fights for equality and the emancipation of women.
Social issues
The labourers issues (=arbeidersvraagstuk).
Imperialism
The proces in which European countries want to expand their power territory overseas by discovering new countries and turning them into colonies.
Expanding the scale
The process of growth of production per company.
Home industry
Activities that can be done, usually manual production and often commissioned by a tradesman.
Waterframe
A second generation spinning machine, driven by water power.
Mechanisation
Trading in manual labour for mechanical labour.
Transport
Taking people and produce from one place to another.
Industrial districts
A city that quickly grew enormous because of industrialisation.
Urbanisation
A migration process from the country side to cities.
Segmented labour
When labour is split up into separate segments, each of the segments creating a part of the whole.
Labour conditions
The physical and mental climate in which one had to work.
Child labour
Working (in a factory) as a fulltime, payed job by (small) children.
Modern Imperialism
A proces in which countries expand their power to other countries in the world for their own economic and political gain.
Cultivation System
An economic system in Indonesia used between 1830 and 1870 in which the people were forced to cultivate agricultural products and give these to their Dutch oppressors.
