H O W T O H E L P T H E C O M M O N M A N

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

HUMANITARIANS

• “people who work to improve the conditions of others”

• Charles Dickens: He wrote books that demonstrated how poor living conditions were---tried to gain sympathy and encourage change and government involvement

• Utilitarianism: Laws used to make the greatest happiness for the greatest number

HUMANITARIANS CONT.

• John Stuart Mill: Government’s job is to work towards the greater good of its people

• Mill said that the government needed to listen to the voice of its people• All people should have a vote• Poor needed protection since they could not fend for

selves• Factory Act (limited conditions on children)• Ten Hours Act (limited the hours people could work)

• Mixed results for this

COLLECTIVE ACTION

• Strikes: groups of workers band together and don’t work until their needs are met

• Unions: Groups of workers pay into a group that will help support their needs• Union representatives would use collective bargaining

• Film clip (newsies)

HOW TO DEAL WITH UNIONS

• Blacklisting

• Signed a contract not to join

• Violence

• Fire them all

• Starve them out

SOCIALISM

• Pg 564-567 Using the words below you need to summarize the section on socialism in 2 or more paragraphs

• Utopian Socialism• Means of Production• Socialism• Robert Owen• Karl Marx• Communist Manifesto• Proletariat • Communism• Democratic Socialism

PREP FOR DEBATE

• On a separate piece of paper list at least 3 pros and 3 cons for having an economic system that is a free enterprise (Capitalist) and for Socialism