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Good Afternoon!!!!. NVC Wrap up Marx and Communism Reforming the Industrial Age Essential Question : Was the Industrial Revolution progress or a problem? Homework : Study for Test. Marx and Communism. The Future According to Marx. According to Marx

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  1. Good Afternoon!!!! • NVC • Wrap up Marx and Communism • Reforming the Industrial Age Essential Question: Was the Industrial Revolution progress or a problem? Homework: Study for Test

  2. Marx and Communism

  3. The Future According to Marx • According to Marx • the working class (proletariat) will violently overthrow capitalism and the bourgeoisie • The workers will take control of government and all private business • Final Goal: a classless society based on cooperation and equality

  4. A Response to Capitalism? • In what ways was Communism a response to Capitalism?

  5. Other Responses… • Late 1800s workers are LOSING JOBS to new technology • Lower wages, even less skilled work • Luddites! • English factory workers that protest by violently attacking and destroying factory machines!

  6. The Luddites • “Chant no more your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood, his deeds I but little admire. I will sing the achievements of General Ludd, now the Hero of Nottinghamshire! Guilty owners may fear him, but his wrath is only for machines. These Engines of mischief were sentenced to die and shall deprive honest workmen of bread no more.”– Ned Ludd’s Song, 1812 • “What right has any man to prevent thousands from buying their goods cheap? What right has any man to riot and put others out of work?”– Anonymous Textile Weaver, 1812

  7. Reforming the Industrial Age • Lives of workers improve • Child labor made illegal • Rise of Labor Unions: groups of workers that join together to protect worker rights • Collective Bargaining: negotiate together with factory owner to improve conditions • Unions go on strike: stop working and shut down factory until demands are met • Initially outlawed in England, but successful by 1875

  8. Reforming the Industrial Age • Cities improve • Better housing and sanitation • Less disease! • Fire and police departments make things safer • Improved City Planning • Poverty and wealth inequality do NOT go away

  9. Wrapping up… • “Before the Industrial Era for most, the world was restricted to their village, which was not surprising when the fastest thing on earth was a galloping horse. Horizons were limited and life was slow. But all that was about to change.”—Bruce Robinson, 2009 • “A sort of black smoke covers the city. Under this half-daylight 300,000 human beings are ceaselessly at work. . Here civilized man is turned back almost into a savage. In this Hell upon Earth, everything which causes horror and anger belongs to the industrial era.”—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1838

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