ch 23
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kmaritn2014 on January 26, 2011
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14 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 wages, hours, conditions | negatives for workers during industrial rev |
| laissez faire | "let them do", let the people go on with their buisness and govt stay out, British people support this idea |
| adam smith | "The Wealth of Nations", brought up and supports laissez faire |
| thomas malthus | "if the population keeps getting larger, we will run into a huge food supply problem", brought poverty to attention |
| jeremy bentham | "the govt should intervene only for the greater good of the people", against laissez faire |
| david ricardo | "Iron Law of Wages", if there are not a lot of workers, factory owners will raise the wages in order to attract more workers |
| Fred. list | "All the world should be like the Hindus", against laissez faire |
| positivism | the use of scientific methods to to solve social and technical problems |
| charles fourier | wanted a Utopian socialism, supported the idea of the common good |
| robert owen | basically seconds fourier's idea, builds a town in New Lanark which was an example of fourier's wants |
| benevolent society | Group of people getting together as a group, decide on taking actions to get better working conditions for themselves |
| chartism | Universal male suffrage (all men vote, fairer than it used to be) Salaries for parliament |
| business cycles | Recurrent swings from economic hard times to recovery and growth and back to hard times; Workers found themselves unemployed |
| mine act | took women and boys under 10 out of the mines |
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