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Industrial Workers Dbq

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During the nineteenth century economic changes increased the amount of European industrial workers. Conditions under which they lived and worked improved along with the availability of jobs for women. Ultimately, the industrial revolution and the agricultural revolution lead to migration to cities for factory work. Theses changes in conditions for industrial workers were caused by the debate between government involvement in economics and if workers themselves have to take the initiative to create changes. English economists argue that the government should not get involved in helping the poor. Thomas Malthus, claims that, “The principal and most permanent cause of poverty has little or no relation to forms of government, or the unequal division …show more content…

The London Workingmen’s Association wrote a petition to Parliament for the “People’s Charter” explaining that Parliament contains lots of power over lives and liberty, such as, labor of the unrepresented millions, income money, the ability to help the poor, and authorizing the power of the whole country, so the people want the government to allow “every person producing proof of his being 21 years of age shall be entitled to have his name registered as a voter . . . [and] that there shall be no property qualification for members of [Parliament]” (Doc 4). The working class has taken the initiative to to ask Parliament for assistance in permitting them with voting rights. The workers’ main goal is to convince the Parliament of their views, so their point of view is biased. Comparatively, Flora Tristan, a French writer and political activist, wants workers, “the victims of real inequality and injustice” to fight for justice and the equality of men and woman (Doc 5). She realizes the strength of workers and that one they can come together in unity and demand the bourgeois give them their deserved rights. Tristan includes her own perspective of being a woman, and undergoing the unequal treatment, making her biased. Another piece of evidence that could further support Flora’s argument is the fact that women in the nineteenth century played a submissive role. Most women only focused on …show more content…

Similarly, in 1886 the Knights of Labor causing the Great Southwest Railroad strike. The workers refused to return due to the long hours, unfair pay, and unsafe conditions. The workers came together in unity to fight for their cause. However, despite their efforts the strike failed and the Knights of Labor

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England was becoming more Industrialized as the days and years went on but their workers and citizens were still unhappy. The factory workers had very harsh working conditions and politics were also indecisive. There were many ways in which people tried to solve political and worker problems. Some of these include labor laws, reform laws, and the Chartist movement. There were many concerns that factory workers felt.

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The Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century changed the European working lifestyles from agrarian to urban. This change of lifestyle happened very quickly, and left thousands of lower class working citizens in poverty. Throughout the nineteenth century several different arguments were made on how to improve the lives of European workers. Arguments made to improve the lives of European workers include: having a stronger government, giving more rights to the working class, turning towards a socialistic government, or simply maintaining the status quo. Documents 3, 7, and 9 claim that having a more involved government will improve living conditions for workers.

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Introduction The world has had many advances and changes in history. In the time period 1750-1900, the world changed immensely, bringing in not only new inventions and technology, but also the Industrial Revolution, Europe’s Imperial Expansion and migration of many people. This time period had many developments and communications that were also carried on after 1900, which was further improved later years ages this time period. Industrialization The Industrial Revolution began in Britain, as there was accessibility for trade, population growth and a stable government.

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The organized labor of 1875-1900 was unsuccessful in proving the position of workers because of the future strikes, and the intrinsical feeling of preponderation of employers over employees and the lack of regime support. In 1877, railroad work across the country took part in a cyclopean strike that resulted in mass violence and very few reforms. An editorial, from the Incipient York Time verbalized: "the strike is ostensibly hopeless, and must be regarded as nothing more than a rash and splenetic demonstration of resentment by men too incognizant or too temerarious to understand their own interest" (Document B). In 1892, workers at the Homestead steel plant near Pittsburg ambulated out on strike and mass chaos the lives of at least two Pinkerton detectives and one civilian, among many other laborers death (Document G).

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