Relations on Capital and Labor

Question 1

Class-consciousness

Answer 1

A sense of class feeling.

Question 2

William Blake

Answer 2

protested the hard life of the London poor and called factories “satanic mills”

Question 3

William Wordsworth

Answer 3

lamented the destruction of the rural way of life and the pollution of the land and water

Question 4

Luddites

Answer 4

handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1812

Question 5

Friedrich Engels

Answer 5

future revolutionary and colleague of Karl Marx

Question 6

“The Condition of the Working Class in England”

Answer 6

Friedrich Engels’ blistering indictment of the middle class of how they oppress and extort the workers

Question 7

Andrew Ure

Answer 7

wrote in 1835 in his study of the cotton industry that conditions in most factories were not harsh and were even quite good

Question 8

Edwin Chadwick

Answer 8

a conscientious government official well acquainted with the problems of the working population who concluded that the “whole mass of the laboring community was increasingly able to to buy more of the necessities and minor luxuries of life

Question 9

1792-1815

Answer 9

a period of almost constant warfare between Britain and France

Question 10

bank owners in Catholic France

Answer 10

Protestants and Jews

Question 11

When did wages start rising substantially in England?

Answer 11

1840

Question 12

Normal shifts for cotton mills in 1800

Answer 12

12 hour shifts

Question 13

Robert Owen

Answer 13

successful manufacturer in Scotland who testified in 1816 show that employing children under ten years of age as factory workers was “injurious to the children and not beneficial to the proprietors”

Question 14

Factory Act of 1833

Answer 14

Limited the factory workday for children between 9 and 13 to 8 hours and adolescents of 14 to 18 to 12 hours.

Question 15

Many urban workers came from here

Answer 15

Ireland