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The Industrial revolutions and the working class poltical movement…
The Industrial revolutions and the working class poltical movement
Industrial revolution
Technological advances
economic changes
Agricullture
less important
Industrial capitalism
Began in 1750
100 years
Afected every sector of economy
Transformed society
Class based society
Replaced the state system
Status depended on
Wealth
Origins
Result of the revolutions
French revolution abolished the priviledges of
Nobility
Clergy
Industrial revolution
increased power of wealthy burgeoisie
Characteristics
Classes depended on
Wealth
Society more open
Citizens more equal
3 Groups
Upper class
wealthiest people
Middle class
civil servants
small-scale merchants
Working class
industrial workers
peasants
Working class movement
Conditions
Wealthy burgeoisie
higher standars of living
Working class
terrible conditions
Wages too low
14-16 working hours
Child labour
No safety and hygiene
No rights
No protest
No strikes
Origins of politics
protests against factory owners
Early 19th
Proletariat in Great Britan
Luddites
1811
workers protestors
Trade unions
1830
asotiations offered mutual assistance
Chartist movement
1838-1848
demanded political reforms
Demands
Higher wages
Shorter working days
Better safety and hygiene
Ban on child labour
Political reforms
Freedom of association
Right to strike
Universal manhood sufrage
End to the requirement that MPs be property owners
Representation in parliament
Revolutionary ideologies
Marxism
Karl Marx
Class struggle
Proletariat organise against oppresors
Dictatorsip of the working classes
New social and politcal order
Communist economy
private property
means of production socialised
Communist society
Class based society dissapear
Equal
Anarquism
Individual freedom
Direct action
Abolition of private property
The International
leaders of workers
in Europe
met
First international
London
1864
Wanted to coordinate workers action
Measures to encourage the collective ownership
In 1876
Disolved
Second International
Paris
1889
Wanted an 8 hour working day
Only socialist parties
Disolved in 1914
1st World War