... emphasis on science and technology - scientific research comes to play a role. • Big firms becoming more important • Growth of number of white collar workers • Invention of the production line in early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company. V. Social Results of Industrialization A. Population There had been an increase in 18th C. but a veritable explosion in 19th C. 1800-1850 40% pop ... Children's activity. o Homosexuality - from sin to sickness. • Men and Sex o Prostitution was very common - 30,000 plus prostitute women in London in Late 19th C. o The reason was that the pove...

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... financial responsibility with their parents and child labor is created. In many cases children help and support their parents to help on their financial obligations. People who are living below poverty line have no other option than to force their children to work in factories and other places for wages. For example in The Jungle "little" Stanislovas was forced to sell his ... for the child to look or have education, which would be essential for the development and for the future of the child. In many cases like in Jurgis's family the poverty of the household is responsible for child la...

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... to be faded and hidden between dead trees. Around the 1980s, Flint, a city in Michigan, was in a catastrophe because General Motors" (GM) plant-closings led to the crisis of assembly line workers" layoffs and home evictions. Michael Moore, a former editor of Mother Jones, directed the documentary "Roger and Me" to inform viewers about GM's bad treatment towards assembly ... line workers. More than 20,000 of the lower class workers were eliminated from their jobs. Most of the wealthy people did not help the misfortunate and did not show any ... of the plant-closings in Flint. Fire stat...

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... to be faded and hidden between dead trees. Around the 1980s, Flint, a city in Michigan, was in a catastrophe because General Motors" (GM) plant-closings led to the crisis of assembly line workers" layoffs and home evictions. Michael Moore, a former editor of Mother Jones, directed the documentary "Roger and Me" to inform viewers about GM's bad treatment towards assembly ... line workers. More than 20,000 of the lower class workers were eliminated from their jobs. Most of the wealthy people did not help the misfortunate and did not show any ... of the plant-closings in Flint. Fire stat...

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The Poor Amendment Act of 1834 (promoting both individualism and capitalism within 19th century Britain society) withheld a heavy impact to the country's poverty relief system. It stipulated that the poor could only receive government assistance if they moved into government workhouses. Although propitious in theory, the law contained many flaws within its structure, ... their main characters relate to their peers within the working class. The relationship between these two parties is essential to outlining the themes within each novel. For example, Dickens' plot line for Oliver Twist, is me...

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... nature, but could not control fluctuation in the economy. Modern production was very efficient and provided and excess of merchandise and food. Even with this efficiency there was still mass poverty (Pious, 118). Marx and Engels saw that throughout the history of mankind we have tried to control nature. They saw humans using their creativity and potential for the betterment of ... imposed stricter rules, they would see results. Also, with democracy alone bearing the responsibility of providing human rights, one must take into account the tyranny of the majority. Where this line of argum...

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... . He was a philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionary in the nineteenth century. Karl was born in a middle class home in Trier, Germany on May 5, 1818. His family came from a long line of Rabbis. At seventeen years old Karl enrolled in the faculty of law at the University of Bonn. While he was there he became engaged to Jenny Von Westphoten. Then ... a communist society. Also while in Paris that is where Marx made a lifelong partnership with Fredrich Engels. Engels was Marx's major source of income when the Marx family was living in poverty. All together Marx and his wif...

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... schools were set up in the late 1800s, though most could not afford the costs of sending their children to secondary schools. Items became cheaper to buy after the assembly line and interchangeable parts were developed. Workers began buying goods that in earlier times only the wealthy could afford. The demand for goods and the building of cities, railroads, and factories ... turned out as Karl Marx had predicted if the standard of living of the working class had not improved. Marx despised capitalism, believing that it created prosperity for a few and poverty for many. "Working men of a...

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