Industrial Revolution

1850-1910

Knights of Labor

eight-hour workday

equal wags for women

end child labor

American Federation of Labor

eight-hour workday

higher wages for working men

safer working conditions

benefits for injured workers

Subtema

Woman's Trade Union League

eight-hour workday

minimum wage

end child labor

ugly conditions when working

1800s

they develop labor unions

a group of workers organized the protests for conditions

work hours costs

the age limits towards children who work

safety measures

used strikes, or work stoppages

to be able to pressure the workers

marches are organized to make the problems known

won the right to strike in Great Britain

1870

1900

the unions made progress in:

Western Europe

United States

since the Middle Ages

crafitworkers

merchants

shop owners

doctors

professionals such as lawyers

the industrial revolution was commissioned to create new middle class members

mens

they provided the money to be able to build new factories

handle new business

Middle-class families

lived around the central city

working-class neighborhoods

they had houses:

big

well-built

single-family homes with yards

they had a servant or two

the wives did not work outside the home

their work was:

control the maids

take care of children

make a nice space for their husbands when they returned from work

the working class life was made much more difficult

to the rich and with high performance was a time of discovery and research

new philosophies of life

people thought about how to develop a way to improve the conditions of workers

other people thought that the poor are responsible for their own problems

socialism

the control of the means of production and distribution of goods

they are owned by society

the members of society share goods, just like work

there are no capitalists

Subtema

there is no private property of:

factories

railroads

or any other business

Social Darwinism

Charles Darwin

his theory said that animals stronger and more adapted so that they overflow

1842

he wrote his essay called Natural Selection

1859

wrote About the Origin of Species and Natural Selection Means

he studied animals, not humans

people take their work and adopted it to humans

the Darwinists said that like the animals, the people who were more apt, intelligent and apt, increased their wealth

the poor were lazy and stupid, did not apply what the Darwinists said

Business owners use this to explain their power and wealth