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Responses to the Industrial Revolution

This article explores the responses to the Industrial Revolution, such as workers' protests and demands for change in working conditions, as well as the government's investigation and the emergence of labor unions and social reforms. It also discusses the influence of influential figures like Charles Dickens and Karl Marx.

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Responses to the Industrial Revolution

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  1. Responses to the Industrial Revolution January 5, 2006

  2. Workers Demand Change • Working conditions deteriorated • Workers’ suffering grew and became increasingly dissatisfied • Workers in Britain began a series of protests • Luddite protests-Workers, upset by wage reductions and the use of unapprenticed workmen, began to break into factories at night to destroy the new machines

  3. Manchester Riots • In 1819, workers gathered in Manchester • The orderly crowed numbered about 80,000 • Workers demanded economic and political reforms • Nervous soldiers fired on the crowd killing 11 and injuring 400 • Parliament investigates • Middle-class liberals believed that government should not interfere; Conservatives sometimes criticized working conditions • Laissez-faire economics (Wealth of Nations)

  4. Forces of Change • Labor Unions organize and empower workers • Novelists like Charles Dickens expose the hardships of the working poor and child labor in his novel Oliver Twist • Utopian Socialist want to reorganize industry to reform society • Scientific Socialism by Karl Marx introduced in the Communist Manifesto wanted public ownership of productive assets

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