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The Industrial Revolution - Coggle Diagram
The Industrial Revolution
The class-based society
It was the society
of the Industrial Revolution
Middel class
farmers with lands
doctors
small merchants,
Last class
agricultural labourers
proletariat
Upper class
characterised by
property
income
high levels of wealth,
Marxism
Develped by Karl Marx and Engels
The dictatorship of the proletariat:
They would take politcal power
Redistribute wealth equally
Communism
New society, in which
everyone would be equal
Class struggle
Defended that proletariat
should fight the wealthy bourgeoisie
Anarchism
developed by Karl Max
Direct action
people had to defend
their interest
through their own actions
Sometimes violence was included
Communes
society would be reorganised
into small groups
the decisions would
be taken by
popular assemblies
Individual freedom
people had to fight
against any institution
that limited their freedom.
Working-class political movements
Differences between bourgeoisie and proletariats
Bourgeois capitalist
industrialization brought profits
comfortable homes
healthcare
Improved standard of living,
Terrible conditions
employers could dismiss
and fine workers
without restrictions
workers did´t have
rights to protest
or even to discuss
their conditions
They worked 14-16 hours
Wages very low
No social insurance
so if they had
and accident, they
will lost their wages
machinery was unprotected
accidents very common
Thank to the protest
Apear working movements
Trade unions
Associations to help workers
Chartist movement
Improved their working conditions
Luddites
Hostile to new machines
protesting by destroying them