Reforming the industrial world

By cparedes001

  • 1700

    1700
    Bentham introduced the philosophy of utilitarianism.

  • 1776

    1776
    Adam Smith book call “The Wealth of Nations” and his ideas were the foundation of Capitalism

  • 1798

    1798
    Thomas Malthus wrote an essay that predicted wars and pandemic killing people.

  • 1800

    1800
    John Stuart Mill, led the utilitarian movement.

  • 1800

    Working people became more active in politics.

  • 1800

    Middle 1800s, women formed unions in the trades they know better.

  • 1800

    1800
    In the USA, skilled workers began joining unions.

  • 1807

    Parliament pass a bill to end the slave trade in British west Indies.

  • 1817

    1817
    David Ricardo, took Malthus theory to another level in one of his books.

  • 1824

    Parliament finally abolished the combined Acts that were made in 1799 and 1800.

  • 1825

    1825
    Robert Lanark found a cooperative community called New Harmony in Indiana, when he went to the USA.
  • Period: to

    1829-1830

    Parliament began investigating about child labor.

  • 1833

    1833
    Abolition of the Slavery in the empire.

  • 1833

    Parliament passed the Factory Act, about the age for the children to start working.

  • 1842

    Mines Act prevented women and their children from working underground.

  • 1847

    Bill to help working women and their children.

  • 1848

    1848
    Creation of the “Comunist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

  • 1848

    1848
    Beginning of the Movement for women rights.
  • Period: to

    1848- 1849

    Widespread revolts shook

  • 1850

    1850
    States were starting public schools systems.

  • 1865

    1865
    End of enslavement of African people by the victory of the union in the civil war.

  • 1873

    1873
    Slavery endend in Puerto Rico

  • 1875

    British trade unions won the right to picket and strike peacefully.

  • 1886

    1886
    Unions join together to form the American Federation of labor (AFL).

  • 1886

    Spain bolished slavery in uts Cuba colony

  • 1888

    1888
    Brazil's huge enslaved population won freedom.

  • 1904

    1904
    A progresive group organaze the National Child labor committee, to end child labor.

  • 1919

    1919
    Supreme court of USA objected to the Federal child labor law.