HIS236H5 Lecture Notes - Utopian Socialism, Class Conflict, Middle Ages
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Long work hours (no unions and no standards) If you had an injury, you got fired. They are called hands because they don"t exist ; they are there only for the labor. Fundamentally changes the class structure in england and throughout europe because of industrialization. People"s identities are based on the work that they do. People who own the means of production (machines) People who sold their labor for a wage. In 1843, gets a job as a journalist and gets fired for speaking out against the government, kicked out of prussia. Exposed to really radical ideas of utopian socialist. Application of science for the improvement of the human condition. Abolition of private property (this property creates the division of socialist classes) Can justice exist in a society that is defined in its very core social inequality. Writes articles that are critical against the french government, gets kicked out. Ingles and parents own a factory in manchester.
