Industrialization and Imperialism
Name an example of a raw material that was extracted from colonies to make production cheaper during the Industrial Revolution
Options include: rubber, cotton, oil...
Foreman (or managers) continually threatened factory workers to produce more and work more dangerously as part of this way of organizing a factory
What is the drive system?
The experience of feeling disconnected from your work is best described as this
What is alienation?
This core concept of capitalism incentivizes owners to produce and expand because they can gain profit from their work.
What is private property?
Eastern European immigrant Jews were frequently discriminated against for speaking this language
What is Yiddish?
Because of the spread of various diseases, urban mortality rates were higher than fertility rates through 1900. Name this pattern.
What is the urban penalty?
At this conference, European powers decided how they would divide and conquer Africa in order to obtain colonies and cheap raw materials.
What is the Berlin West Africa conference?
In the 1860's and 1870's, Chicago unions pushed for what regulation for better working conditions?
What is the eight-hour-day?
Marx and socialists believed that profit was better described as this
What is exploitation?
According to capitalism, everyone is motivated by this in their economic decision-making
What is self-interest?
What is Reform Judaism?
Across Europe, older elite classes, whose wealth was based in land ownership, lost power relative to what new class?
Who were industrial owners -- AND/OR -- upper middle class (bourgeoisie)?
Through his company, this leader controlled the Congo and brutally used slave labor to sell raw materials for up to a 900% profit.
Who was King Leopold II of Belgium?
What is a scab?
Because of the tendency to overproduce goods, Marx claimed capitalism tended to be what?
What is unstable?
Because capitalism tended to overproduce goods, working class employment was typically...
What is unstable?
These government-promoted waves of violence against Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe were a key push factor in their migration
What are pogroms?
By the 1860's working class women in Europe caught up to men in this ability
What is literacy?
Britain forcing India to stop producing cloth and to buy British-made cloth is an example of what?
What is the (global) division of labor?
This kind of work stoppage organizes workers from across all industries at the same time
What is a general strike?
What is commodity fetishism?
According to capitalism, when firms do this consumers win because goods become cheaper and there is more variety to meet everyone's needs.
What is compete / competition?
Jews were forced to live in these sections of segregated cities --OR-- rural villages
What are ghettos --OR-- shetls?
Middle and upper class urban residents paid taxes to create this new way to maintain discipline and order among the working class
What is the city police?
Unlike territories that had been colonized in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, these nations eventually urbanized and received investments from Europe to support their industrialization.
What are European settler colonies? (US, Canada, Argentina, South Africa, New Zealand)
This party tended to support Chicago's working class and their ability to organize and protest for better working conditions
Who were the Democrats?
Give one example of Marx's alternative socialist society that would follow the collapse of capitalism
Options include: Free public education; worker or citizen control of major industries like communications, transportation, energy; workers doing a variety of activities each day; no private property; wealthy pay higher percentage of tax
The lack of a minimum wage or 8 hour day would be an example of this core belief of capitalism?
What is the limited role of government?
This fake document created in 1900 by Russian secret police still circulates today, inspiring anti-Semetic beliefs and violence
What is the Protocol of the Elders of Zion?
Name the belief that work and life could be improved endlessly through applying science, engineering, and design.
What is the culture of innovation?