Industrial Social Changes Reading Questions

What began to change public perception of the brutal working and living conditions of early industrialization?

The publication of the harsh condition that faced factory workers. (Friedrich Engels) middle class reformers would publish things about the brutality.

Many urban workers in Great Britain were from what neighboring island in the early 19th century?

Ireland (potato famine and economic problems)

In the early 19th century, some _______employers and social _______ in Parliament argued that more humane standards were necessary.

Enlightened, reformers

In 1850, more British people still worked on farms than in any other occupation. What was the 2nd largest occupation?

(mostly women) Domestic services

Although class-consciousness and working class solidarity grew in early 19th century Great Britain, what economic philosophy from the Age of Enlightenment dominated early industrial policy?

Lassiez-faire economy (hands off government doesn’t get involved, economic freedom)

Trace the British attitude toward union activity in the 19th century

1799: combination acts passed outlawing unions, 1824: Combination acts repealed unions tolerated, 1867: unions fully legal again. (Robert Owen of Scotland really pushed for trade union.)

In addition to union activity, British workers also engaged in direct ______ activity in defense of their own interests in the 19th century.

political

Although the British Parliament abolished the slave trade in 1807 and freed all slaves in British territories in 1833, the Industrial Revolution was deeply entangled with the _______world and the misery of slavery.

Atlantic