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Section 1: The Dawn of the Industrial AgeSection 1: The Dawn of the Industrial AgeThe textile industry began the industrial age. Changes in farming led to greater production of food but eliminated farming jobs sending workers to seek jobs in towns and farming jobs, sending workers to seek jobs in towns and cities. New machines increased production greatly.
Section 2: Britain Leads the WaySection 2: Britain Leads the WayThe Industrial Revolution began in Britain. Capital from trade could be invested in new enterprises. Canals, and later railroads provided transportation Britain had ample natural railroads, provided transportation. Britain had ample natural resources and an available labor force.
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Section 3: Social Impact of the Industrial Section 3: Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
The early industrial age brought great changes for workers. They lived in crowded tenements and worked in factories and They lived in crowded tenements and worked in factories and mines. Children and women worked long hours.
Section 4: New Ways of ThinkingSection 4: New Ways of ThinkingThomas Malthus and others believed in laissez-faire economics. Malthus saw poverty as a result of overpopulation. Later socialists including Karl Marx challenged this philosophy socialists, including Karl Marx, challenged this philosophy, calling for community ownership of the means of production.
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A l h lif h d i d t d
Objectives
• Analyze why life changed as industry spread.
• Summarize how an agricultural revolution led to the growth of industryto the growth of industry.
• Outline the new technologies that helped trigger the Industrial Revolution.gg
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th ti d th t t i d i
Terms and People
• anesthetic – a drug that prevents pain during surgery
• enclosure – the process of taking over and • enclosure – the process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers
• James Watt – Scottish engineer who improved the efficiency of the steam engine, making it the key source of power for the Industrial Revolution key source of power for the Industrial Revolution
• smelt – to separate iron from its ore
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What events helped bring about the What events helped bring about the Industrial Revolution?
For thousands of years following the rise of For thousands of years following the rise of civilization, most people lived and worked in small farming villages. However, a chain of events in the mid 1700s changed that of events in the mid-1700s changed that way of life.
Today we call this period of change the Today, we call this period of change the Industrial Revolution.
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Th I d t i l R l ti b i B it i d
Th h it b ht ff t d l li
The Industrial Revolution began in Britain and spread around the world.
• The changes it brought affected peoples lives as much as any political revolution. But unlike a political revolution, it happened gradually.
• The Industrial Revolution was the process by which production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machineryto complex machinery.
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The Industrial Revolution influenced people’s daily lives
Life after 1850Life before 1750
daily lives.
• People live and work in industrial towns or cities.
• People live in rural villages and work with their hands.
• They buy food and clothing made elsewhere
• They grow their food or trade goods in the local market elsewhere.
• They can travel by train or steamboat.
in the local market.
• Travel is by foot, horse, or sail.
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These changes started in the farm fields of Europe.
The Dutch The British
• The Dutch built • The British expanded on Dutch The Dutch built dikes and combined small fields to better
The British expanded on Dutch experiments.
• They experimented with crop t ti d i i diff t fields to better
use land.• They also
i t d
rotation and mixing different soils.
• Jethro Tull invented a seed drill experimented with fertilizer from livestock.
that planted seeds in rows rather than scattering them.
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Enclosure improved output but displaced t f
• With the help of legislation
peasant farmers.
p gfrom Parliament, large landowners consolidated their holdings.g
• Larger farms were more efficient, producing more f d i h l l b d food with less labor and cost.
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B t l d l th f But land enclosure threw many poor farm workers off the land.
Small landholders couldn’t compete, and unemployed farm laborers migrated to
h i i i f kthe growing cities for work.
These displaced farm workers provided a pool of labor to tend machines in the growing
manufacturing cities.
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This agricultural revolution caused a population l i i E
1700 1800
explosion in Europe.
Britain 5,000,000 9,000,000
Europe 120,000,000 190,000,000
• Greater and more consistent food production reduced the impact of famines.
p , , , ,
reduced the impact of famines.
• Improvements in hygiene, sanitation, and medical care improved health.
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N t h l h l d t i h
• In 1709 Abraham Darby found a way to smelti i l i t d f h l
New technology helped trigger changes.
iron using coal instead of charcoal.
• The result was a less expensive and better-quality iron useful to make parts for steam quality iron useful to make parts for steam engines.
• His son and grandson continued to perfect the g pprocess, which led to iron bridges and railroad tracks.
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New materials and forms of energy played key roles in the Industrial Revolution.
• In 1712 Thomas Newcomen invented a steam engine to pump water from
o o o
a steam engine to pump water from mines.
• In 1764 James Watt set out to make ’ ffNewcomen’s engine more efficient.
• Watt’s engine became the power source to run factories, trains, and
During the 1700s, coal was harnessed to produce t f
source to run factories, trains, and steamships.
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New technology quickly changed people’s lives.
anesthetics • Pain could be reduced during surgery and other proceduressurgery and other procedures.
telegraph • Messages could instantly be sent long distances.
• Machines could stitch far faster than a seamstress.
sewing machine
antiseptics • Reducing infections saved lives.
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U d t d h B it i th t ti i t f
Objectives
• Understand why Britain was the starting point for the Industrial Revolution.
• Describe the changes that transformed the textile • Describe the changes that transformed the textile industry.
• Explain the significance of the transportation p g prevolution.
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Terms and People
• capital – money to invest in enterprises
• enterprise – a business organization in an area such as shipping mining railroads or factoriessuch as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories
• entrepreneur – someone who manages and assumes the financial risks of starting a new gbusiness
• putting-out system – cottage industry; raw d b d f l hcotton was distributed to peasant families, who
spun it into thread and then wove the thread into cloth in their homes
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• Eli Whitney – in 1793, invented the cotton gin, which sped up the previously time-consuming job of separating cotton fibers from cotton seeds
• turnpike – private road built by an entrepreneur who charged travelers a toll, or fee, for use
• Liverpool to Manchester – site of the world's first major rail line in 1830
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What key factors allowed Britain to lead What key factors allowed Britain to lead the way in the Industrial Revolution?
Changes in agricultural practices fueled population Changes in agricultural practices fueled population growth but left many farmers homeless and jobless. The population boomed in the towns and cities as people mig ated f om al a eas cities as people migrated from rural areas. These migrants provided labor for factories and coal mines.
Population growth was one of several factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
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A number of characteristics made Britain ripe for i d i li i i h i h h
h d• Natural ports
industrialization in the eighteenth century.
Britain had plentiful natural resources,
atu a po ts• Navigable rivers• Water for canals
including:• Access to the sea• A plentiful supply of coal• Vast supplies of iron
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England’s Resources and Industries, 1750
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In the 1700s Britain had skilled inventors In the 1700s, Britain had skilled inventors, a ready workforce, and a growing population.
Money to
To meet the growing demand for jobs and start new
businesses.
for jobs and products, one more thing was neededneeded.
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Entrepreneurs needed capital, or money to invest, i b i i h hi i i i in business enterprises such as shipping, mining,
and manufacturing.
With a healthy economy, many A business
l h d From the
id 1600 o o y, a ywere now willing to risk their money on new
class had accumulatedthe needed
it l
mid-1600s, England had prospered f t d money on new
ventures.capital.from trade.
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Britain had additional advantages
B it i h d t bl t th t
Britain had additional advantages.
• Britain had a stable government that supported economic growth.
• Other countries had river tolls but Britain • Other countries had river tolls, but Britain had no such barriers.
• The powerful British navy protected shipping and overseas trade.
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In the 1600s, cotton cloth from India became popular in Britain. Using the putting-out system,merchants began a cotton cloth industry in Britain.
Skill d ti M h t tt t
g y
Skilled artisans in towns then finished and d d th l th
Merchants gave cotton to peasant families, who spun thread and wove cloth at h tt i d t dyed the cloth.home as a cottage industry.
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The demand for cotton cloth products or textiles The demand for cotton cloth products, or textiles, made it Britain’s largest industry.
New inventions would help to increase and
The putting-out system was too slow to meet the help to increase and
speed up production.slow to meet the growing demand for cotton cloth.
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• The flying shuttle sped • The flying shuttle sped up weaving.
• The spinning jenny spun p g j y pseveral threads at once.
• The water frame used water to power the process.
J h K ’ fl i h l 1733John Kay’s flying shuttle, 1733
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• It took a long time to But the new machines posed a problem. How
• It took a long time to separate cotton fibers from the cotton seeds, limiting productionp
could farmers provide enough cotton to meet
limiting production.
• In 1793 an American, Eli Whitney, invented cotton to meet
English demand?t ey, e ted
the cotton gin, which quickly did the job.
• Cotton production soon increased exponentially.
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Machines were too large to put in peasant homes, so they were placed in large
The new machines d d th sheds along swift-moving
rivers, which provided power. Workers came to labor in
doomed the putting-out system.
these factories.
Factories brought together workers and machinery to produce large quantities of goods.
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As production increased, cheaper ways were needed to move products.
Some entrepreneurs invested in turnpikes.
Products traveled faster on these roads.
England was soon linked by a series of roads.
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Factory owners needed still
• Canals were dug to link rivers or to
needed still more efficient and inexpensive ways to move
connect inland towns to coastal ports.
• Engineers designed ways to move goods.
• Engineers designed stronger bridges and upgraded harbors.
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This success set off a canal-building
The owners profited from the tolls, while
In 1763, the Bridgewater canal was g
frenzy.,
the price of coal in the city of Manchester
opened.
of Manchester was cut in half.
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Railroads did not have to follow rivers, allowing the shipment of goods efficiently and quickly over land.
Railroad lines Railroad lines crisscrossed England, Europe, and the United
The Liverpool to Manchester line opened in 1830. It
and the United States by 1870.
began a railroad-building boom.
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The new technology set off a cycle that d ti ll ff t d h l li d
More affordable Lower prices created
dramatically affected how people lived.
More affordable goods caused still
lower prices.
pmore consumers and greater demand.
Greater demand led to new inventions and still more affordable goods
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E l i h t d b i ti d h t lif
Objectives
• Explain what caused urbanization and what life was like in the new industrial cities.
• Compare and contrast the industrial working • Compare and contrast the industrial working class and the new middle class.
• Understand how the factory system and mines y ychanged the way people worked.
• Analyze the benefits and challenges of industrialization.
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b i ti th t f l t iti
Terms and People
• urbanization – the movement of people to cities
• tenement – crowded, multistory building divided into apartmentsinto apartments
• labor union – workers’ organization
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What were the social effects of the What were the social effects of the Industrial Revolution?
The Industrial Revolution brought great riches The Industrial Revolution brought great riches for entrepreneurs. Millions of workers, however, lived in povery. As standards of living increased, ll f i t b fit d f i d t i li ti all of society benefited from industrialization.
Until then, working people suffered in dangerous and unsanitary conditions overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, overcrowded housing, and unrelenting poverty.
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The Industrial Revolution brought rapid The Industrial Revolution brought rapid urbanization.
• Changes in farming, rising population, and the d f k l d l t i t t itineed for workers led people to migrate to cities.
• Overnight, towns and cities near coal or iron mines mushroomed mines mushroomed.
• Manchester grew from 17,000 people in the 1750s to 70,000 in 1801.
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The rapid growth of population and industry changed y gthe distribution of two key resources.
People and labor
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The middle class lived in clean neighborhoods with running water and paved streets.
The Industrial Revolution created a new water and paved streets.
Women stayed home to raise their children.
middle class, or bourgeoisie.
They included merchants, inventors, investors, and “rags-to-riches” individuals who were admired for their hard work and “get-ahead” attitude.
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Th iti h th ki l li d
h l d d d l
The cities where the working class lived were crowded, dark, dirty, and smoky.
• The poor lived in tiny, crowded rooms in multistory tenements packed into vile-smelling slums.
• Lack of sanitation left waste and rotting garbage in • Lack of sanitation left waste and rotting garbage in the streets, creating a terrible stench.
• Raw sewage was dumped in rivers, contaminating g p , gdrinking water and spreading disease.
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Organizations such as labor unions were illegal.
Frustrated workers t i d t i
Frustration at times turned to violence:tried to organize
secretly, but they lacked a political
d
• Between 1811 and 1813, textile workers rioted.
to violence:
voice and were powerless to affect change.
• Groups called Luddites smashed labor-saving
hi th t machines that were replacing workers.
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Many workers were comforted by religions such as M th di f d d b J h W l i th 1700Methodism, founded by John Wesley in the 1700s.
Methodism rekindled workers’
Meetings featured hymns and
Wesley encouraged self-improve-
hopes and channeled anger into
hymns and sermons stressing forgiveness
pment through adopting sober and moral g
reform.forgiveness and salvation.
a d o aways.
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The heart of the industrial city was the factory.
The technology of the machine age and th id f the rapid pace of industrialization imposed a harsh new
f lif fway of life on factory workers.
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Factory workers lived and worked in l t diti
In rural villages • In factories the work
i idl t
unpleasant conditions.
In rural villages people worked hard, but work varied by the
pace was rigidly set. Shifts lasted 12 to 16 hours.
varied by the season. They controlled their
k
• Tired workers were easily hurt by machines with no safety devices own work pace. with no safety devices. Textile factory air was polluted with lint.
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Most early factory workers were women.
• Women could be paid half what
• This created a double burden on be paid half what
men earned.
• They were
double burden on women.
• After 12 hours of considered easier to manage.
• It was believed
work, they returned home to care for their families in • It was believed
they could adapt better than men.
their families in damp, crowded tenements.
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Working conditions in the mines were even th i f t i
• Crippling coal dust
worse than in factories.
Miners earned more than factory workers,
• Crippling coal dust filled workers’ lungs.
• There were dangers acto y o e s,but conditions were more dangerous.
gof cave-ins, floods, and explosions.
Th k d l dangerous.• They worked long
hours in darkness.
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Child labor was an accepted practice. Child labor was an accepted practice.
• Most children began work at age seven or eight.
Nimble fingered small and quick they crept into • Nimble-fingered, small, and quick, they crept into machines to change spools or repair thread.
• They worked in dust- and lint-filled rooms• They worked in dust and lint filled rooms.
• Children in mines worked in the dark and dampness for long hours, often doing hard labor.
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Child ’ kd Child labor reform laws called “factory
• Children’s workdays were reduced to 12 hours.y
laws” were passed in the early 1800s.
• Children under eight were removed from the cotton millsearly 1800s.
N l i th 1830 d 1840 f th d d
the cotton mills.
New laws in the 1830s and 1840s further reduced hours for women and children, sent inspectors into factories, and required that children be educated.
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Since the 1800s people have debated whether i d i li i bl i
The industrial Workers later
industrialization was a blessing or a curse.
The industrial age brought great hardship. Pay was low
Workers later gained the vote and political power Wages Pay was low,
conditions were terrible, and housing was
power. Wages rose in time. The cost of new products and of housing was
dismal.products and of travel dropped.
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U d t d l i f i i d th
Objectives
• Understand laissez-faire economics and the beliefs of those who supported it.
• Describe the doctrine of utilitarianism• Describe the doctrine of utilitarianism.
• Summarize the theories of socialism.
E l i M ’ i f th ki l d • Explain Marx’s views of the working class, and responses to Marxism.
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Terms and People
• Thomas Malthus – British economist; wrote An Essay on the Principles of Population warning that the population would outgrow the food supply
• Jeremy Bentham – British philosopher and economist who advocated utilitarianism
• utilitarianism – the idea that the goal of society should be “the greatest happiness for the greatest number of citizens,” and that this should greatest number of citizens, and that this should be the basis for judging all laws
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i li th b li f th t th f
Terms and People (continued)
• socialism – the belief that the means of production should be owned and operated by and for the people in general rather than by and for private individuals
• means of production – farms, factories, railways mines and other large businesses that railways, mines, and other large businesses that produce and distribute goods
• Robert Owen – a Utopian who set up a model Robert Owen a Utopian who set up a model community at his cotton mill in Scotland
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Terms and People (continued)
• Karl Marx – German philosopher who, with Frederick Engels, published The Communist Manifesto predicting class struggle
• communism – in practice, a system in which a small elite controlled the political and economic life of a nation life of a nation
• proletariat – society’s “have nots,” the working classworking class
• social democracy – a political ideology favoring gradual transition from capitalism to socialism
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What new ideas about economics and What new ideas about economics and society were fostered as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
In 1798, Thomas Malthus concluded that poverty was unavoidable because the population was increasing faster than the food supply Malthus was increasing faster than the food supply. Malthus was one of many thinkers who tried to understand the staggering changes of the Industrial Age.
As heirs to the Enlightenment, these thinkers looked for natural laws that governed the world of business and economics
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world of business and economics.
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Thomas Malthus was an English economist who carefully studied the impact of the population
explosion in eighteenth-century Britain.explosion in eighteenth century Britain.
He concluded that poverty was unavoidable because the population was growing faster than
the nation’s ability to grow food.
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Many agreed with Malthus, b t h d
He felt that “natural events”
h f i
Malthus said that unless th ki but he proved
to be wrong. Food
d i
such as famine or war were the only
the working class had fewer children, h production
rose quickly over the
mechanisms to maintain a sustainable
they were doomed to remain in
next century.population.poverty.
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Eighteenth-century thinkers such as Malthus Eighteenth century thinkers such as Malthus believed that natural laws govern the world
of business and economics.
This attitude of keeping “hands off” was called
They believed these laws should be allowed to operate without any
“laissez-faire.”p y
government interference.
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Most famous among these thinkers was Adam Most famous among these thinkers was Adam Smith. Most middle-class capitalists agreed with
his laissez-faire approach to capitalism.
Supporters of free-market capitalism saw the success of the industrial age, in which government
played no part, as evidence for laissez-faire.
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Another British laissez-faire economist D id Ri d
Ricardo opposed help Like Malthus,
was David Ricardo.
Ricardo opposed help for the poor, contending that this would only lead them to have
e a t us,Ricardo saw no hope for the working class to lead them to have
more children. working class to escape poverty.
Malthus and Ricardo saw the best cure for poverty as the “laws of the free market” and advised the poor
to be thrifty work hard and have fewer children
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to be thrifty, work hard, and have fewer children.
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Other thinkers, such as Jeremy Bentham,b li d th h ld b t believed there should be some government
intervention in the economy.
Laws should Bentham believed that the Laws should be judged by their utility to benefit
goal of society should be “the greatest happiness for the greatest number of to benefit
people.
gcitizens.” This idea was called utilitarianism.
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A follower of Bentham was John Stuart Mill.
Like Bentham and Smith Mill believed in • Like Bentham and Smith, Mill believed in individual freedom.
• But he also believed, “The only purpose for which But he also believed, The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others ”is to prevent harm to others.
• Mill saw capitalists harming workers. He called for limiting their power to do so by giving workers the
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The champions of laissez-faire economics i d i di id l i ht h i li t praised individual rights, whereas socialists
focused on the good of society in general.
Socialism: The people as a whole should
Capitalism:Individuals should own and operate a o e s ou d
own and operate the means of production for
own and operate the means of production for profit production for
the general good.profit.
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These early socialists were called Utopians. The name implied
Socialists set up communities where work was shared The name implied
impractical dreamers.and property was commonly owned.
Robert Owen set up a Utopian community Robert Owen set up a Utopian community at his cotton mill in New Lanark, Scotland.
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At New Lanark Owen:Owen’s model community was intended to
At New Lanark, Owen:
• Raised wages
P id d h lintended to show that mill owners could make a profit
• Provided schools
• Refused to use child labormake a profit
and still offer decent wages and conditions
labor
• Built homes for workers
R fit bl and conditions. • Ran a profitable business
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German philosopher Karl Marx condemned the id f h i li i id liideas of the Utopians as unrealistic idealism.
He formulated a new theory of “scientific of scientific socialism.”
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Along with Englishman Frederick Engels Along with Englishman Frederick Engels, Marx published The Communist Manifesto
in 1848.
• He predicted a struggle between the social classes that would lead to a classless society.
• The workers would take over all of the means of • The workers would take over all of the means of production, such as the farms, factories, and railways, and run them for the public good.
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• In industrialized Western Marx theorized that all of history was a struggle
• In industrialized Western Europe, the “haves” were the business owners or bourgeoisie was a struggle
between the “haves” and the “have-nots.”
bourgeoisie.
• The “have-nots” were the workers, or proletariat.the have nots. workers, or proletariat.
• In the end, the proletariat would unite along class lines, take control of the means of production, and end the struggle.
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• In Germany socialists Marx called for workers everywhere
• In Germany, socialists adapted Marx’s beliefs to form social democracy, a political ideology everywhere
to unite and overthrow the capitalists
a political ideology calling for a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism capitalists. to socialism.
• Russian socialists embraced Marx’s ideas embraced Marx s ideas and set up a communist-inspired government in 1917
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The later failures of communist nations illustrated
But workersworldwide never
Revolutionaries around the world adapted
flaws in Marx’s theories.
united as a class.
pMarx to their local goals and needs.and needs.
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