The Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain during the mid-18th to the early 19th century. One of the most poisonous and dangerous jobs in the Industrial Revolution was matchmaking where workers would dip the ends of match sticks into a hazardous chemical called phosphorus. The prime candidates to complete the job of matchmaking were young girls aged 4-16 years old who were known as ‘match girls’. These children worked‚ making matches‚ from 6:00 in the morning to almost 10:00 at night and were
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Introduction I.1 The Aim of the Thesis The primary aim of this thesis is an exploration of conservation design guidelines for the conversion of industrial buildings. During the last twenty years‚ this building type has increasingly been protected as a symbol of the historic value attached to the physical remains of the industrialization process. The best way to secure their continuing role in the urban fabric for the future was through adaptive reuse. Conservationists prescribe design guidelines
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Cities Criticism‚ Little Dorrit Criticism‚ and Our Mutual Friend Criticism. INTRODUCTION Perhaps the least-known of all Dickens’s novels‚ Hard Times is a social-protest novel which attempts to lay bare the malignant impact of nineteenth-century industrial society upon the people living in English factory towns. It was poorly received upon its publication in hard cover and has been often overlooked in critical surveys of Dickens’s works; still‚ Hard Times has acquired a growing critical following
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Socialist Ideology (a)The origins and principal tenets of the socialist thought. Before the Industrial Revolution Britain was an agrarian society with approximately 90% of the population living in the rural areas. Most people worked in the field as farmers and farmhands on land owned by a small minority (Aristocrats). During this time‚ the manufacturing of goods such as textile was a slow process because everything was done by hand. However‚ a series of innovations changed the way people lived
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Industrial Development Since Independence. 1. The British regarded India as source of supply of raw materials and market for British manufacturers and hence‚ at the time of Independence‚ India was industrially an underdeveloped economy. 2. The poor industrial sector was domintaed by consumer goods industries like cotton textile‚ jute‚ sugar‚ salt‚ paper‚ soap‚ etc. 3. Industries producing intermediate goods like steel‚ coal‚ cement‚ alcohol‚ power‚ non-ferrous metals were poorly established in
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to reduce costs and this strike spread to 11 states creating a national strike made of 500‚000 people. • National Labor Union (1866) was the first attempt to organize all workers in all states – both skilled and unskilled‚ both agricultural and industrial workers. NLU also had many reforms such as the 8-hour work day. • Knights of Labor (1869) was a 2nd national labor union which began as a secret society in order to avoid detection by employers and went into public in 1881 and lost popularity/membership
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Chapter 31 CCOT The Industrial Revolution sparked lots of new innovations from the 1700’s to1850’s‚ in the west. Such innovations led to many positive and negative social‚ economical‚ and environmental changes. Although Western Europe and the Americas stayed the same socially because middle class men earned the most of the money in the family‚ it changed economically because of the replacement of the putting out system with the factory system. It also changed environmentally‚ because of
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MALAYSIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Definition Systems that encourage industrial harmony It is for the regulation of relations between employers and workmen or employees and their trade union and the prevention and settlement of trade disputes. Focus on 3 aspects: – – – Relation between employer and union Employment law Discipline procedures and terminating service contract Importance of IR One of the important aspects in human resource management To create a harmonious relation
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Industrial Relations or Labour Relations is an expression used not only for relationships between employers and Trade Unions‚ but also for those involving Government with the aim of defining policies‚ facing labour problems. The concept of industrial relations has a very wide meaning and connotation. In the narrow sense‚ it means that the employer‚ employee relationship confines itself to the relationship that emerges out of the day to day association of the management and the labour. In its wider
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body as “criminal”‚ the prison industrial complex impacts the livelihood and daily activities that black individuals partake in (38). This is a clear fact due to the statistics that support the fact that black individuals find acquiring proper education and employment within society increasingly difficult‚ due to the negative perceptions that society holds towards the black community. These negative perceptions have been created and supported by the prison industrial complex through the degradation
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