Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Philosopher Karl Marx believed he had discovered the key to history: Capitalism would be over-ruled by communism and oppressed workers would finally be free. but that did not work. Karl Marx invented something called communisim.
communisim is when every body is equal, they must be treated equally, they must be paid equally, and they must all work equally. but communisim did not always happen, because in people dont put much effort in their work, and the people that do put effort in there work they still get paid the same amount and some people didnt think that was fair.




(above) Karl Marx

Film Lesson: "Modern Times"

The movie called "modern times" is a movie about the industrial reveloution. Charlie Chaplin
the main character of the movie was playing a man who was being over worked in a factory.
Chaplin's view of industry and the Industrial Revolution was kind of disgusted by the whole idea and was looking... for lets just say "justice". He wanted out he didnt want to stay in the factory being over worked day after day and getting paid about a dollar a day. After that scene he was looking for a way to chage the industrial reveloution, but eventually he fails.

Industrial Revolution - Child Labor

Child labor in the industrial reveloution was a very hard time in the 19th century. Children
between 10-12 were working 14-16 hours a day and they were only paid as much as 10 cents a day, because it was (for the owners of the factory) better to hire children to work in the factorys because they were smaller and if they had to reach into a big macine it would be easier for them to do that, because they were smaller. And also because they paid grown men more money, that is another reason why they paid children, because they would accept fewer amount of money.

captions by Lewis W. Hine.



what they did to stop child labor the they were sevral laws passed.
heres ALL of them :

The 1819 Factory Act : no children under 9 to work in factories. Children from 9 to 16 allowed to work a maximum of 72 hours per week with one and a half hours a day for meals.

1833 Althorp`s Factory Act : children from 9 to 13 to work a maximum of 42 hours per week; also children aged 13 to 16 to work a maximum of 69 hours a week. No night work for anybody under the age of 18.

1842 Mines and Colleries Act : banned all women and children under 10 from working underground. No-one under 15 years was to work winding gear in mines.

1844 Graham`s Factory Act : minimum age for working in factories reduced to 8 years old. 8 to 13 years old to work a maximum of six and a half hours a day. 13 to 18 year olds to work a maximum of 12 hours a day and the same applied to women. Safety guards had to be fitted to all machines.

1847 Fielder`s Factory Act : 10 hour day introduced for under 18's and for women.

There were factory inspectors to 'enforce' these laws but they were so poorly paid, they were easily bribed. Also many working parents were desperate for money and they lied about the ages of their children to get them work in factories and mines. So the laws may have been good in theory, they were very difficult to enforce.

Industrial Revolution - Inventions

During the 18th and 19th centuries lots of things were invented that made it easier to make things and get work done. So why it that a revolution. These inventions didn't make things a little different, they made them a lot different.

Geography of Latin American Revolutions

The term Latin American revolutions refers to the various reveloutions that took place during the early 1800s that resulted in the creation of a number of independent countries in the latin american region. This is considered to be one of the most influential series of events in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

Latin american reveloution

the latin american reveloutions was all about conquering others. Columbus, Cortez, and Pizzaro were conquering native americans and taking over their home land. in spain they built a entire empire setting up governments in Latin America so they could control the natural resources, like cotton, tabaco, sugar, rum, and wood