1. Industrialization & Social Unrest
Chapter 21
Industrialization & Social Unrest

2. Industrial Society in Europe
Population and migration – population explosion in Europe leads more and more people to live in the cities
Life is tough in the city – inadequate housing and sanitation, disease and crime
In rural areas, serfdom is abolished in Prussia, Austria and Russia

3. Railroads Railways built in England, Belgium, France, and Germany
Easier and faster movement of people and products and leads to the birth of even more industrialization (like Iron and Steel industries)

4. The Factory System and the Family
Early on – family roles stayed the same, later – because of better machines, unmarried women and children worked in the factories Child Labor ended with the English Factory Act of 1833 which forbade the employment of children under nine and limited the work day to nine hours for children between 9-13; also included an education requirement where factories had to provide at least 2 hours of education.

5. Interesting results of the Industrial Revolution
Because more people were living in the cities, crime rates increased. New police forces came about to keep order as early as 1828 in France, 1829 in England (the “bobbies” and 1848 in Germany Prison reform also took hold – serious offenders were now sent to Australia from England and to Devil’s Island (S.A.) from France

6. Economics and Ideals
Thomas Malthus – contended in his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) that population would outstrip food supply, making conditions of working class worse Utopian Socialists – often advocated for the creation of ideal communities and questioned capitalism Anarchists – rejected both industry and the dominance of government

7. Karl Marx and Marxism
Karl Marx – believed class conflict would eventually lead to the triumph of the industrial proletariat over the bourgeoisie and the abolition of private property and social class – comes to be known as Marxism
Friedrich Engels
Published The Condition of the Working Class in England – presented a devastating picture of working conditions in industrial life
Joined with Marx to write Communist Manifesto – called for more radical change than socialism – the outright abolition of private property, rather than just the redistribution

8. 1848
A series of liberal and nationalistic revolutions occur in response to food shortages, unemployment, and poor working conditions
Revolutions occur in France, Austria, Italian and German states
The Vienna Uprising – the abolishment of serfdom by the Hungarian diet quells the Hungarian independence movement
Revolution in Prussia
Frederick William IV – announces Prussia will help unify Germany, ending the Prussian monarchy

9. The Hapsburg Empire
The Vienna Uprising – the abolishment of serfdom by the Hungarian diet quells the Hungarian independence movement