Definitions
The use of children in industry or business, considered inhumane.
Child Labour
A person opposed to new technology or ways of working
Luddite
A system of ideals that states women should exist in the private, domestic sphere of the home
Cult of domesticity
Inventor of the seed drill
Jethro Tull
The population shift from rural to urban areas
Urbanization
A member of a the working-class movement for political reform in the United Kingdom named after the People's Charter of 1838
Chartist
The new middle class
Bourgeoisie
Creator of the crop rotation method
Viscount Townsend
An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests
Labour Union
Inventor of the water frame
Richard Arkwright
The act that allowed representation of manufacturing cities into parliament
The Great Reform Act
The process of turning iron into steel
Bessemer process
A movement that deprived commoners of their rights of access and privilege to land
Enclosure Movement
Working class people
A political movement that calls for the proletariat seizing the means of production
Marxism or communism
Mechanized spinning wheel
Spinning Jenny
Improvements in farming methods that caused a surplus in labourers and food
Agricultural Revolution
A man instrumental in Britain's first public health bill
Edwin Chadwick
An Act in 1863 that regulated harmful air pollution caused by the process to produce soda ash.
Alkali Act 1863
Introduced selective breeding programs to improve the quality of the animals
Robert Bakewell
Describe one effect of Great Britain’s industrialization on the lives of the working class in period 1800-1850
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