industrial revolution

where did it start and why

in england

• had many natural resources (coal and iron)

• stable food supply

urbanization

mass movement of people from rural to urban

wokring conditions

very bad + and child labor

• low pay, long hours

labor unions

organizations of workers that fought to improve working conditions of workers

what did the govt do

sset minimum wage and end child labor

laissez faire capitalism

businesses are free to run without govt interference and the prices follow forces of supply and demand

• system during industrial revolution

• adam smith

karl marx and friedrich engels

communism, believed that the factories (bourgeosie) exploited poor workers (proleteriats)

• the proletariat should rise up and overthrow boourgeosie

• create new society (utopia by thomas moore) where there was no social classes and everyhting equal

thomas malthus

checks onj society

• warfare

• famine

• disease

we will outpace the food source if these checks are gone

ricardo

iron law on wages

• keep wages low so that we avoid more poverty since more money can mkae more children that will steal jobs

ginsberg

culture of poverty

• poverty like revolivng door

• will stay in it UNLESS KID GETS EDUCATION