Relations Between Capital and Labor Flashcards
What is class-consciousness?
An individual’s sense of class of class differentiation
What are the Luddites?
Group of handicraft workers who attacked whole factories in northern England in 1812 and after, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
Industrial Development brought about what?
New social relations and intensified long-standing problems between capital and labor in both urban workshops and cottage industry
Who was the nineteenth century a golden age for?
The middle class
What inventor came from a prestigious family with money and titles?
Harkort
What inventors came from poor backgrounds?
Watt, Wedgwood, and Cockerill
Who dominated banking in Catholic France?
Protestants and Jews
Who were among the first critics of the Industrial Revolution?
Romantic poets such as William Blake and William Wordsworth
What did Friedrich Engels write?
He wrote The Condition of the Working Class which condemned the middle class for “mass murder” of the factory workers.
What writers argued that conditions in factories were good maybe even not harsh?
Edwin Chadwick and Andrew Ure
How many days more did English workers work in 1830 than in 1760
In 1760 workers worked 250 days a year and in 1830 they worked 300 days a year.
How did the standard of living for factory workers in Britain change after the long wars with France?
It improved slightly
How were adults punished in the factory setting for mistakes?
They had fees taken off of their weekly pay
How were adolescents and children punished for mistakes ?
They were often beaten
What were poorhouses?
industrial prisons where inmates had to work in order to receive their food
