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Industry and Working
Exam 1 Modern History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Entrepreneur | a person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome |
| Cottage Industry | an industry—primarily manufacturing—which includes many producers, working from their homes, typically part time.referred to home workers who were engaged in a task such as sewing, lace-making or household manufacturing. |
| Urbanization | he physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanization is also defined by the United Nations as movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. |
| Proletariat | a term used to identify a lower social class. identified as those people who had no wealth other than their sons.initially used in a derogatory sense, until Karl Marx used it as a sociological term to refer to the working class. |
| Leisure | a period of time spent out of work and essential domestic activity` |
| Luddite | a social movement of British textile artisans in the nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanised looms—against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work. |
| Sir Edwin Chadwick | Inquiry into the Condition of the Poor |
| Friedrich Engles | The Condition of the Working Class in England |
| Pope Leo XIII | Rerum Novarum (The Condition of Labor) |