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Industrialization and its Ramifications
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| industrial Revolution | economic development, to machine and factory,1820-1870 "deskilling": skilled labor within an industry or economy is eliminated by the introduction of technologies operated by semiskilled or unskilled workers |
| Capitalism | an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is by private individuals or corporations |
| Factory System | a manufacturing method for standardized products in which fixed capital, raw material, and labor operations are centralized and sophisticated machinery is often used |
| Class System | consists of the proletariats, the employees, and the bourgeoisie, the employers. |
| Proletariat | the class of workers, especially industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labor to survive |
| Agricultural Revolution | 18th century prelude to the Industrial Revolution.make farms more compact and new machinery, better drainage, scientific methods of breeding, and experimentation with new crops and systems of crop rotation. |
| Enclosure | Instead of communal exploitation of land, property would be managed privately |
| James Watt | invented the "modern" steam engine. major forms of transportation grow and prosper. Steamships and steam locomotives allowed for the quicker transportation of raw materials |
| Friedrich Engels | The Condition of the Working Class in England: damning indictment of social attitudes of the 1830s and 40s, pointing up the horrors of back-to-back housing, cellar dwellings and poor sanitation. |
| Karl Marx | The communist manifesto (with Friedrich Engels): The Communist Manifesto the goals, and theory. advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs |