Mid-19 th Century Working Class
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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 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”
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