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industrial revolutio
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| industrial revolution | great increase in machine production that began in England in the 18th century |
| Enclosure | large closed-in field for farming |
| industrialization | process of developing machine products of goods |
| factors of production | conditions needed to produce goods and services |
| factory | building were goods are mede |
| entrepreneur | person who organizes manages and takes on the financial risk of a business enterprise |
| urbanization | city building and the movement of people of people to cities |
| middle class | a social class of skilled workers professionals business people and wealthy farmers |
| stock | right of ownership in a company called a corporation |
| corporation | business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not responding |
| laissez faire | economic theory that argues that governments should not interfere with business affairs |
| adam smith | philosopher who defends laissrz faire economics |
| capitalism | economic system in which people invest money to make a profit |
| utitarianism | belief that an idea is only as good as it useful |
| socialism | belief that businesses should be owned by society as a whole |
| kar marx | economic thinker who wrote about a radical form of socialism |
| communism | from of socialism in which all products is owned by the people |
| union | organized groups of workers that bargain whit business is owned to get better pay and working conditions |
| strike | organized refusal to work |