the commonplace of child labour‚ and the creation of mass production resulting in a new social class structure. The development of the factory system and mass production was one of the main and most important results of the Industrial Revolution‚ creating a new economic system‚ new social classes‚ many inventions vital to the functioning of today’s society‚ etc. The factory system was developed in response to the dexterity of the steam engine that had been recently developed. In response to the steam
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consisted of four people: Father Robert Scaletta‚ mother Mary Scaletta‚ elder sister Frances Scaletta and the youngest son Anthony Scaletta. Robert Scaletta who was a good looking‚ tall and hard worker man‚ worked in a port for the low salary as a docker. And Mary Scaletta was a housewife to take care of the young children. They lived in a very small flat. Sometimes they did not have any money and even a slice of bread for breakfast. So when Frances was at her 14th she left school‚ because she and
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Is the strike no longer necessary? Throughout the years conflict has occurred between managers and workers resulting in industrial action taken either individually or as a collective form. The most favoured form of industrial action is the strike where employees demonstrate the importance of the issue concerned by stopping work and leaving the workplace. Strikes occur for a number of reasons one being pay. Strike patterns have changed over the years showing a decline in numbers that are due to
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The appointment of the first Labour government in January 1924 was widely regarded by contemporaries as an event of great political and social significance. The new Prime Minister‚ Ramsay MacDonald‚ lacked the governmental experience of his predecessors and had risen from obscure origins. Many on the political right expressed alarmist expectations of attacks on private property and established institutions. Among the more extreme predictions was a claim that women would be nationalised and free love
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Why were the Liberal Party motivated to introduce social reforms? (12 marks) Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree’s important social investigations proved more scientifically that poverty was a major issue in Britain. Evidence showed that 30% of the urban population could be classified as poor‚ and 10% of the British population were living below the poverty line. Britain had experienced a massive rise in population‚ with populations in areas such as London‚ Lancashire and the West Midlands
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employers who had the shared belief that they should be able to have workers without unions. They were a massive group and at one point had 850‚000 members which was a force to be reckoned with. This group displayed its power when it defeated the Dockers union in the Hull dock strike of 1890. In this event the National Free Labour Association used naval boats to support the employers who were trying to stop the strike and they successfully defeated the union. The trade unions suffered many setbacks
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economic and strategic environment in Australia. The 21st century is still young and has been called as Asian century‚ and is an Australian opportunity. Asia is the most populous continent and holds the highest percentage of wealthy middle class‚ creating new opportunities and demanding a diverse range of goods and services. Over the past century‚ Australia’s trade with Asia has risen dramatically; this is not limiting to economic gains. Australia has already invested in the building stronger relationship
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world’s largest brand-name apparel marketers with sales in more than 110 countries. There is no other company with a comparable global presence in the jeans and casual pants markets. Its market-leading apparel products are sold under the Levi’s®‚ Dockers® and Levi Strauss Signature® brands. Levi’s®: Invented in 1873‚ Levi’s® jeans are the original‚ authentic jeans. They are the most successful‚ widely recognized‚ and often imitated clothing products in the history of apparel. Levi’s® jeans have
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“The Fall of Advertising & The Rise of PR”: Book Report The Fall of Advertising & the Rise of PR by Al and Laura Ries demonstrates the dramatic shift from traditional advertising-oriented marketing to public-relations-oriented marketing. The age of advertising‚ they claim‚ is in the past. Advertising was once considered an effective way to encourage consumers to purchase new products‚ however‚ that is no longer the case. Advertising has not only become rampant‚ but it lacks credibility and
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The 3rd May 1979 saw the greatest parliamentary swing since the war‚ with the Conservative Party polling 43.9% of the vote; thereby winning 339 seats (up 62 since the last election). It is due to these figures‚ therefore‚ that historians such as Eric Evans believe that it was the strength of the Conservatives under their new‚ forward-thinking leader‚ Margaret Thatcher that led them to victory. However‚ when one looks at the context of the time itself‚ it seems apparent‚ as Marr sums up‚ that ‘it
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