Ever since the beginnings of business and trade between people, there has been a need for a person to provide for himself and in some cases others as well in order to participate in such activities. This need was magnified during the nineteenth century with the drastic rises in the amount of industry and capitalism in European societies. These changes also resulted in a shifting of the way people went about obtaining the necessary commodities needed to maintain livelihood.

There was a flocking of men, women and children of all age to factories trying to find work. This was a trend that sucked all the life out of the traditional lifestyle that had worked fairly peacefully for many previous years. And in itself the new inclination of the general population to work industria

Another of the possible causes of revolution in the nineteenth century is rooted in the most essential of human needs, sustenance (i.e. food); and the issues dealing with the population being able to adequately provide enough for themselves. Thomas Malthus in his ‘Essay on Population’ said “it appears, therefore, to be decisive against the possible existence of a society, all the members of which, should live in ease, happiness, and comparative leisure; and feel no anxiety about providing the means of subsistence for themselves and families” as he sited the importance of a society to provide enough food for itself to flourish. He had grim forecasts about how the levels to which population and subsistence would grow, “Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio”. And though these never proved to be correct, it does show that in the time period, and in those soon to follow, there was reason to believe that there would be problems concerning the availability of sufficient amounts of food. Sighting this, Malthus theorized that there humans were only able to control the growth of their population enough to grown relatively to food amounts in two ways, “that the superior power of population cannot be checked, without producing misery or vice, the ample portion of these too bitter ingredients in the cup of human life.” Therefore we can presume that in order to have this situation taken care of, misery and vice would have to be experience, out of which conflict and eventually revolution could arise.

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Some topics in this essay:
Friedrich Engels, , Andrew Ure, Organisation Labour’, Thomas Malthus, Sighting Malthus, Loius Blanc, you’ ‘two, misery vice, causes revolution, upper class, nineteenth century,