relations between capital and labor Flashcards
class- consciousness
an individual’s sense of class differentiation
what was the role of middle class women?
There role was to protect and enhance her femininity and to stay out of industry
Who was William Blake?
A romantic poets that called the early factories satanic mills and protested the hard life of the people in london
Who was William Wordsworth?
A romantic poet that protested the pollution the factories had on the water and land.
Luddites
Group of handicraft workers who attacked whole factories in 1812 because they believed the machines were putting them out of work.
Friedrich Engels
middle-class german that wrote, The condition of the working class in england, which was an attack on the middle class treatment of the working class
Andrew Ure
wrote that the life of the worker were improving and based on his study of the cotton industry said the factories were good
Edwin chadwick
Government official that wrote that the working class could buy what they needed not what they wanted.
What was Saint day?
day that many workers took the day off
what went on form 1792 to 1815
a period of almost constant warfare between France and England.
Who were children treated?
Bad, they were often treated badly and worked long hours and worked bad jobs.
how was child labor seen?
was seen as normal and not bad and the children were not seen as they are today.
Factory act of 1833
english law that cut the hours that children could work children 9 could work and younger had to attend elementary school.
Robert Owen
wrote about child labor and how bad it was lead to the passing of the factory act of 1833.
how did many view the life of the working class
many saw it as a hard life and that it need to get better so the working class could have a better life.
