Industrialization is when an economy is transformed from being primarily agricultural based to one based on manufacturing goods. Industrialization had a growth of human numbers from 375 million people in 1400 to about one billion in the early nineteenth century (Strayer, 568). Also during this time there was an emerging energy crisis, as the major industrial fuels, wood and charcoal, became more scare and their prices began to rise. The response to this crisis was nonrenewable resources such as oil, coal, and natural gas replaced an earlier reliance on endlessly renewable resources of wind, water, wood, and muscle power of animals and humans. They began to use new energy sources such as, steam engines and petroleum engines. It was a breakthrough
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Because women were not welcome in the unions, they eventually offered men some ability to shape the conditions under which they labored (Strayer, 581). With this idea of urbanization many people were worried about how the younger people might not have morals or the women might become prostitutes (11/9). One organization that was created was the YMCA, which was an organization also known as the Young Men’s Christian Association. This organization was created in response to the rapid urbanization in the cities because of the unhealthy social conditions. Because of the growing cities, it drove out the wealthy and settlement houses began to appear (11/9). A settlement house was a place that provided educational, recreational, and other social services to the community that it was in. These houses provided a place for people to go to stay out of trouble if they needed somewhere to …show more content…
Marxism had given steps to fight for women’s right, the first successful revolution meant for the emancipation of women. Marx did not imagine that workers could better their standard of living within a capitalist framework, but they did happen (Strayer, 583). Such as wages rose under pressure from unions, infant mortality rates fell, and shops and chain stores catering to working class families had multiplied. Male, English workers gradually obtained the right to votes and politicians had an incentive to legislate in their favor, by abolishing child labor and regulating factory conditions. Marx had not even imagined this scenario, but somehow it all fell in to place and helped to better the class
Because women were not welcome in the unions, they eventually offered men some ability to shape the conditions under which they labored (Strayer, 581). With this idea of urbanization many people were worried about how the younger people might not have morals or the women might become prostitutes (11/9). One organization that was created was the YMCA, which was an organization also known as the Young Men’s Christian Association. This organization was created in response to the rapid urbanization in the cities because of the unhealthy social conditions. Because of the growing cities, it drove out the wealthy and settlement houses began to appear (11/9). A settlement house was a place that provided educational, recreational, and other social services to the community that it was in. These houses provided a place for people to go to stay out of trouble if they needed somewhere to …show more content…
Marxism had given steps to fight for women’s right, the first successful revolution meant for the emancipation of women. Marx did not imagine that workers could better their standard of living within a capitalist framework, but they did happen (Strayer, 583). Such as wages rose under pressure from unions, infant mortality rates fell, and shops and chain stores catering to working class families had multiplied. Male, English workers gradually obtained the right to votes and politicians had an incentive to legislate in their favor, by abolishing child labor and regulating factory conditions. Marx had not even imagined this scenario, but somehow it all fell in to place and helped to better the class