Unit 4 Stuff to Know

culture of innovation
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culture of innovation
the widespread and almost obsessive belief that things can be endlessley improved, this attitude lay at the center of the Industrial Revolution
textiles/textile industry
economic activity connected with cloth making; the Industrial Revolution began in Britain with machines that improved cloth-making, making cloth faster and cheaper
What argument serves to counter the notion that European culture is inherently more suited to industry and technology?
until about 1750, core areas of India, Europe, and China enjoyed similar levels of economic development
What was a reason of why Britain didn't industrialize first?
absolute royal authority
How did contact with other civilizations contribute to Europe's Industrial Revolution?
It enabled Europe to draw disprapotionately on the world's resources
aristocracy/aristocrats
as wealth earned from business and manufacturing became more important in Britain through the course of the nineteenth century, the importance of this class, whose wealth primarily came from owning land, declined, even though they dominated Parliament for most of the century
ideology of domesticity
this attitude of the middle classes in industrial Britain defined the home and charity work as proper activities for women, as opposed to encouraging them to work for a living; the attitude kept women from working for themselves
urbanization
the rapid growth of cities, such as Britain experienced in the nineteeth century as manufacturing grew more and more, workers moved to the cities looking for jobs. This rapid growth created many health and pollution problems
working class/laboring class
the group that made up 70% of Britain's society; they suffered the most and benefited the least from industrialization
what statement accurately describes the experience of women in nineteenth century Britain?
Working class women usually left outside of paid employment after they were married
Karl MarxGerman socialist thinker, who based on his observations of the working conditions in industrial Britain, came all of history as a class struggle between "the oppressor and the oppresed"bourgeoisiename that Karl Marx gave to owners of industrial capital-the entrepreneurs of the middle class who reaped profits of the Industrial Revolutionproleteriatname that Karl Marx gave to Industrial Working class, who would eventually rise up in revolution against the capitalistsLabour Partyworking class political party established in 1890s to represent interests of workers in British government and try to acheive change peacefully