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irish famine |
-period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852 |
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edwin chadwick |
- as secretary of poor law commission, he searched for facts of living conditions -summarized results in Report on the condition of the labouring population of great britian published in 1842 -wanted to reform in advocating the modern sanitary system -effect:(6 years later) britian published their first national board of health to establishthe modern sanitary system -middle class supported due tot the spread od cholera |
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pauper apprentices |
-children of paupers who were bound out by the local parish overseers and churchwardens - serve in the factories of the industrial revolution |
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unions |
-formed by skilled workers in different industries -1. preserve their own workers position by limiting entry to their trade -2. gain benifets from the employers - 1820s they focused on union movement towards the national uion |
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robert owens |
-social reformer -beleived in the creation of voluntary associations that demonstrate other benifits cooperative rather than competitive living -his ideas appealed to other leaders -leader of Grand national consolidated trades union in febuary 1834 -PURPOSE: coodinate a strike for eight hour work day |
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luddites |
-skilled craftman in midland and northern england -attacked machines in 1812 -pople who tried to get rid of the machines -why: believed that machine cuased the bad situation for the lower classes |
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chartism` |
-a movement of british workers to improve their condition developed -firs important political movement of working men organized during the 19th century -main aim was to acheive political democracy -tried for change through peaceful, constitutional mean while combated with threat of force -utter failure but not, showed how a froup a people have the pwer to organize to a sense of working consiousness |
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factory acts |
-passed in 1802 and 1819which limited labor fr children 9-16 yrs old to 12 hours a day -work for children under 9 was forbidden -kids were to recieve reading arthmetic during work hours (only for cottn mill workers) -textie: ages 9-13 8 hours a day and ages 13-18 12 hours a day - |
