The industrial revolution
and the
working class political movements
What was it?
Great Britain 19th century
Process of industralization
Technological avances
Tranformed economy, industry
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Causes to it
Increased Trade
Technological progess
Agricultural improvements
Financial support from agriculture and trade
Population Growth
Favourable political and social structure
Key elements
Iron and steel production
The textile industry
Transport
Liberalism and Capitalism
Industrial Capitalism
Economic Liberalism
Theory based on the ideas of Adam Smith
Defends Freedom of production and trade
as essential conditions for economic growth and develompment
It is a system that puts in practice ideas of Economic liberalism
Characteristics
Should free competition between bussines
Merchants should be able to import and export
Manufacturers should be free to produce
Objectives
Consequences
Interests
Serve the interests of wealthy capitalists
Produce profits to be reinvested in business
Increase of social inequalities
Class based society
Originated by the political Changes in 18th century
Non privileged system
Characteristics
Division
Class was deteminated by
Middle Class
Working class
Upper class
Nobility and wealthy Bourgeois
Low nobility and low Bourgeois
Workers That lived in bad conditions
Wealth and profession
Open society
Working class movements
Caused by the bad conditions of the proletariat
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Employer dismiss an difne workers wiyhout restictions
Workers didn´t have the right to protest
14-16Hours a day and low wages
They could lost their job due to injuries or sickness
unprotected machinery
Three different movements
Trade unions
Chartist movement
Ludittes
Hostile group that destroyed machines. 1811
1820s Assoiciations of workers that demanded improvements in workers conditions
1838 demanded political changes
Left wing ideologies
mid 19th century
working class political struggle
two new ideas
Marxism
Anarchism
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Based on
Dictatorship of the proletariat
Communisim
Class struggle
Defends that there were always be a fight between the workers and the bosses
The proletariat should take the charge of the political power and redistrin¡bute it
Replacing the classes based society there would be a communism society in wich everyone should be equal
Developed by Mikhail Bakunin
Rejected the dictatorship of the proletariat and defended
Individual Freedom
Direct action
People should fight against authority
communes
Small independent groups in wich all decissions would be taken by a popular assamblies
People should fight and defend their freedom through their own actions without political parties