The Industrial Revolution and the Working-class political movement

Key elements of the industrialisation

The textile industry

Iron and steel produciton

Transport

Industrialisation in Europe: thanks to...

Abundant reserves of iron and coal

growing populations that damanded more goods

Well developed railway networks to facilitate transport

Liberalism and Capitalism

Liberalism

Capitalism

Theory based on the ideas of Adam Smith

System which puts in practice the ideas of liberalism.

Class-based society

Upper class

Middle class

Working class

High levels of wealth,

civil servants, lawyers, doctors, etc

Proletariat and agricultural labourers.

Working class political movements

Luddites (1811)

Violence

Trade Unions (1820)

Dialogue

Chartist movement (1838)

Politics

Left-wing ideologies

Marxism

Class struggle

Economic

Dictatorship of the proletariat

Political

Communism

Social

Anarchism

Individual freedom

Direct action