HIST 1003 Chapter : Industrial Revolution 2
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Usa was the primary maker of steel by 1900. If you had to go on strike you had to have funds to feed the union families. Prussia: 1850 universal manhood suffrage: every adult male can vote. France: 1875 universal manhood suffrage placed in the constitution of the third republic. Britain: 1884 all men could vote except domestic servants and adult males who lived with their parents. Austria: 1907 universal manhood suffrage in the western part of the empire: real wages increased 50% between 1870 and 1900. Change in marxist theory: class relationships were not evolving as marx said they should, he said nothing like this should ever happen. Another blow to marxist theory: pope leo xiii (1878-1903, possessing classes must help working classes, christian social political parties. Changes continued: workers were not supposed to benefit from capitalist system but they are.