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Working class political movements and Industrial revolution
Consecuences
Population Growth
Agricultural improvements
Increased trade
Financial support from agriculture and trade
Technological progress
Steam engine
James watt
Railway
Stephenson
Favourable political and social structure
Started in Great Britain
Keys of industralisation
The textile industry
Transport
Iron and steel production
Industralisation Europe
Belgium
France
Germany
Economic system
Industrial capitalism
Ideas of economic liberalism
Industrial production is the most important economic activity.
Economic liberalism
Ideas of Adam Smith
Freedom
of production
Free trade
State should not interfere
Characteristics
Interests:
Interests of wealthy capitalists and business owners.
Objectives:
Aimed to produce profits to be reinvested in business.
Consequences:
Social inequalities
The class-based society
Upper class
Wealthy bourgeoise and nobility
Middle class
Lawyers, doctors and small merchants
Working class
Proletariat and agricultural
labourers.
LIved under inhuman conditions
They worked 14-16 hours a day
Employers could dismiss and fine workers without restrictions
Accidents and injuries were common
Workers did not have the rights
Society was open
Working-class political movements
Trade unions
These were associations
of workers
Chartist movement
Demanded political changes,
including universal manhood suffrage and laws to improve working conditions.
Luddites
Destroying machines in the factories.
ANARCHISM
Mikhail Bakunin
God and the State
Individual freedom
People had to fight against any authority or institution
Communes
Popular assemblies and the
profit would be shared up basing on everyone’s work.
Direct action
No political parties or elections.
Trade unions CNT
MARXISM
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto (1848) and The Capital
The dictatorship of the proletariat
The proletariat would take political power
There would’n be private property and
workers would own the means of production,
Class struggle
The oppressed proletariat would then organise itself and
fight its capitalist oppressor, the wealthy bourgeoisie.
Comunist society
Communist society in which everyone would be equal
International Workingmen's
Association
1864-1876
Comunist vs Anarchist
London
Second International
Paris
1889-1914
Marxist