Unit 6 Chapters 22/23


Chapter 22 - Industrialization and the Marxist Response

  • How was industrialization on the continent different from industrialization in Britain?
    • Continental industrialization happened after Britain
    • Europeans borrowed technology from the British
    • Demand for cheap, industrial goods was less on Continent than in Britain
    • Continental economies geared more toward domestic than foreign markets
  • What were the main ideas of Karl Marx?
    • world is divided into classes, the workers and the richer capitalists who exploit the workers, there is a class conflict that should ultimately result in socialism (workers own means of production), and then communism (stateless, classless society)
  • How did the belief that the world should be viewed realistically manifest itself in the following places?
    • Science:
      • Laws of Thermodynamics
      • Materialism
      • Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
      • Louis Pasteur and Germs and Pasteurization
      • New surgical practices (anesthesia)
      • New public health measures
      • New medical schools
    • Art:
      • Desire to depict the everyday life of ordinary people
      • Interest in the natural environment
      • Gustave Courbet
      • Jean-Francois Millet
    • Literature:
      • Deliberate rejection of romanticism
      • Wanted to deal with ordinary characters rather than Romantic heroes
      • avoided flowery and sentimental language
      • preferred the novel over poems
      • Gustave Flaubert
      • Charles Dickens

Ch 23: The Growth of Industrial Prosperity

  • What was the second Industrial Revolution?
    • period when advances in steel production, electricity, and petroleum
    • Bessemer Process
  • Explain the impact of each of the following:
    • Bessemer Process:
      • first inexpensive process for mass-production of steel
    • Mass Production:
      • division of labor and increased prevalence of machines in factories
    • Electricity:
      • made stuff go brrr
      • steam machine -> electricity
    • Chemicals:
      • factories made sulfuric acid
    • Telegraph:
      • made long-distance communication easier
    • Steamship:
      • they went fast and went against the current so it made shipping cheaper and easier
    • Streetcars/ trolleys:
      • let city dwellers move to new suburbs and made travel easy and allowed people to travel greater distances to work and shop
      • city layouts changed
    • Telephones:
      • again, made long-distance communication easier and it was faster and easier to understand than telegraph
    • Internal Combustion Engines:
      • used heavy oil instead of gasoline and was more efficient
      • used in locomotives, heavy machinery, and submarines
    • Airplane:
      • made world more easily travelable
    • Radio
      • allowed the masses to hear news as it happened
    • Railroads:
      • allowed people to move around the country faster
    • Refrigerated Railcars:
      • "reefers"
      • bridged distance between production and selling
    • Ice boxes:
      • let people store perishable food for longer
    • Bicycles:
      • horses -> bikes
      • most efficient means of transportation
    • Leisure Travel:
      • activities less localized
      • all classes had some form of leisure
    • Professional and leisure sports:
      • as transport and communication improved, rules became more standardized, teams and fans traveled, and teams played other teams from other areas
    • Advertising:
      • ads in tv, radio, print, online
      • ads more widespread
    • Department Stores:
      • bc of ads and transportation, big retail stores emerged
    • Catalogs:
      • mail order catalogs were growing in popularity
      • part of the idea of the american dream
    • Theaters/ Opera Houses:
      • more people could see plays and such because of improved transportation
      • melodrama
  • What effects did the 2nd Industrial Revolution have on European economic and social life?
    • living conditions got better and germany perfected mass production
    • population increased too
  • What roles did socialist parties and labor unions play in improving conditions for the working classes?
    • created national organization General Confederation of Labor although weak and ineffective
  • What is a mass society and what were its main characteristics?
    • upper class 5% of population 30-40% wealth
    • middle class 15% of population
    • lower class was 80% of population
    • larger and improved urban environment
  • What role were women expected to play in society and family life in the latter half of the 19th century? Who challenged this role?
    • white collared jobs before
    • "marry someone" now
    • Maria Montessori challenges this with her "new women" lecture
    • at the end of the century, women lived longer and had fewer children
  • Describe patterns of family life in the 19th century.
    • women were supposed to take care of kids because of the "wives and mothers" view of women
  • How did life expectancy and birth rates change in the latter half of the 19th century? Why?
    • life expectancy increased and birth rates decreased
    • this was mainly in part bc of Montessori and better management of diseases and widespread access to clean water
  • Compare and contrast the lives of people from the upper, middle, and lower classes.
    • upper class 5% of population 30-40% wealth
    • middle class 15% of population
    • lower class was 80% of population
  • Explain how and why governments responded to challenges resulting from Industrialization.
    • Education:
      • at least 2 hrs education per day for children who worked in factories
    • Sewage and Water systems:
      • lots of pollution due to sewage
    • Public lighting:
      • allowed workers to work longer hours at night and in dark places
    • Public housing:
      • tenements
      • houses were small in terraced rows
    • Urban Redesign (Paris!)
      • produced wealth and hence, new urban buildings
    • Parks:
      • new artistic styles took this into account
    • Public Transportation:
      • bikes, trams, railroad, waterways, roads
  • What is Anarchism? Who were its proponents?
    • theory that govt is doing too oppressive and unnecessary and voluntary cooperation among individuals is needed
    • Zollverein