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Mid-19 th Century Working Class. RCQs #1-4. Dangers in Industrialized Areas Impact of Industrialization on Artisans Worst living conditions for rural class, why? Why did working class stay in urban areas?. Working Class Childhood. Children in the Factories. Working Class Women. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Mid-19th Century Working Class

RCQs #1-4

1. Dangers in Industrialized Areas

2. Impact of Industrialization on Artisans

3. Worst living conditions for rural class, why?

4. Why did working class stay in urban areas?

Working Class Childhood

Children in the Factories

Working Class Women

Working Class Family

Workers’ Rally

Working Class Resistance

• Alienation (Marx) – due to poor working conditions, low pay, and lack of real connection to the products they make, workers grow resentful toward the capitalist system

• St. Peter’s Massacre, Manchester, England – 1819• Cobbett and the Chartist Movement – reform the

Parliament will bring reform to the workplace – 1830s & 1840s

• Luddites – 1831• “blue Mondays”

Luddites

Trade Unions

• Illegal for workers to organize in Russia and Germany

• In GB after 1824 workers could organize and strike BUT factory owner could simply fire workers for participating

• GB, 1847 new laws passed– 10 hour workday for women and children


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