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UNIT 4. The industrial revolution
and the class-based society
Industrial revolution
Causes
Agricultural revolution
Mechanisation
Fertilisers were used
Extensive agricultural holdings
Crop rotation
Increased trade
Population growth
Thechnological advances
Steam engine
Consequences
Population growth
Agricultural improvements
Increased trade
Mechanisation
Areas who drove economic growth
Textile industry
Iron and steel industry
Transport revolution
Industrialisation in the rest of Europe
Conditions for industrialisation
Population growth
Capital for investment
Abundant reserves of coal and iron
Railway networks
In Spain
Problems
Limited domestic demand
Poor quality of coal and lack of local technology
Insufficient domestic capital
Important industries
Cotton industry
Iron and steel industry
Class-based society
Origins
French revolution
Industrial revolution
Groups of society
Upper class
Wealthy bourgeoisie
Nobility
Middle class
Civil servants, lawyers, doctors
Small-scale merchants and craftsmen
Farmers with small agricultural holdings
Working class
Industrial workers
Tenant farmers
Industrial city
Characteristics
New buildings
Cities grew in size
New neighbourhoods
Working-class movement
Long working day
Common child labour
Wages were too low to support family
Chronic illnesses and accidents were common
Workers with no rights
Workers couldn´t protest or strike
Revolutionary ideologies
Marxism
Dictatorship of the working classes
Communist economy
Class struggle
Communist society
Anarchism
Direct action
Abolition of private property
Individual freedom
The international
First international
Second international