World History 3- Chapter 22 Flashcards
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Factory System
Workers put in fixed hours each day for a fix pay
Factors of Production
Land, Labor, and Capital
Mechanization
Automatic machinery used to increase production
Mass production
Producing a large number of a product
Bessemer process
Efficient and cheap process to make steal
Tenements
Shabby cramped apartments
Capitalism
Economic system in which individuals or corporations (instead of government) control the means of production
Assembly line
Mass production- individual parts carried from worker to worker
Monopoly
One corporation had almost complete control over production or sale of a single good or service (no competition)
Cartel
Business combinations to control every stage of an entire industry
Free enterprise
People should be free to engage in whatever business they chose. They should be able to run the business for their greatest advantage.
Corporation
Groups that people were able to buy stocks in.
Laissez-Faire economics
No government regulation of business
Humanitarians
Work to improve conditions of others
Utilitarianism
Greatest happiness for great number of people
Unions
Workers’ associations to bargain on workers benefit
Strikes
Workers protest by refusing to work
Collective bargaining
Agreements were written into contracts lasting for a fixed period of time
Socialism
Political and economic system in which government owns the means of production (almost communism)
Democratic socialism
People would move toward socialist ideals naturally and elect socialist representatives; no violent revolt necessary, people retain some control over economic decisions (through election process)
Proletariat
Workers
Bourgeoisie
Factory owners
Communism
Government owns means of production and control all economic decisions
Factory Act of 1833
Could not employ children under 9, limited hours for older children. Still not widely enforced, and did not improved wages