Social and Political Transformations of the Industrial Revolution
The political changes that arise or liberal bourgeois revolutions and the Industrial Revolution, manifest with the passage of a stratified society with a class society, and the theoretical equality of all men before the law. In reality society is polarized into rich and poor and predominantly further the inequalities of all kinds. It is directed by the capitalist bourgeoisie and owner (in this last aristocracy still important, but ho declined her prestige and power) that coexist with other social groups such as the petty bourgeois middle classes), farm workers. (peasants) and factory workers or proletariat.
The formation of the proletariat and socialist thought contributed to the birth, in the second half of the nineteenth century, thepolitical parties and the emergence of labor unions, which, taken together, they developed ei obrero.LOS movement Social Movements (1815 – 1914)
was based on the social, political and económicos.Se stresses the formation of the proletariat and the consolidation of the bourgeoisie appears and develops oórero movement.
The estate society CLASS SOCIETY
With the Industrial Revolution changed the structures of class-based company closed social groups, defined by function, that characterized the old regime, where the estates nobility and clergy, had a privileged status.
Estamento Society l (Represents the Old Regime / Its prevalence is prior to the period from 1774 to 1815 / closed society formed by subjects / It is divided into estamentos. / Its members have specific and defined social roles ( function more important than money) / The liberal revolutions put an end to this situation.
Class Society (representing the new régimen. / Its prevalence is after the period 1774 – 1815./Sociedad open and formed by citizens are theoretically equal before the law / It is divided into social classes stressing the burguesía. / Money is more important that the function / is imposed by the successive waves politically liberal or bourgeois revolutionary.) Bourgeoisie The liberal revolutions ended the estate society. The main consequences were: (The primogeniture disappeared / * The properties were decoupled and can be disposed of * / e was established! Principle that all citizens were equal before the law, so theoretically the possibility existed that anyone had noble estate access to all ministries and offices including the ruler and the military, reserved for the nobility until then. / To this we must add the consequences of industriallización, and the largest accumulation of capital resulting from development of the economía, so that, overall, the society becomes more open and dianmica; is the modern society or socidedad bourgeois class, whose role is between 1815 and 1914. / The new class society does not end with the high nobility or aristocracy, but if the lower nobility disappeared as such. The bourgeoisie tended to live like aristocrats, to imitate their tastes and preferences follow. / Moreover, the privileges of the aristocracy were abolished slowly, some of them survived the old regime. / In Relaid which ended with the preponderacnia of Aristocracy was the development of wealth furniture * versus *. Inmobililaria Property / Development of joint stock companies, I think other economic enrichment, much faster and stronger as the nineteenth century wore was relegated to the aristocrats to the background or merged with the bourgeoisie, through intermarriage and joint ventures.) The new social groups, such as businessmen, bankers, businessmen, industrial workers (proletariat) and so on. They will define the upper class society, medium and low. * A modern society is organized and social class, is the starting reference point of social structures in which we live today.
The bourgeoisie, as we have said, get the economic and political power throughout the nineteenth century. It becomes the ruling class of capitalist society. Its composition is not homogeneous inside her distinguished:
1. High bourgeoisie composed of big businessmen, are the representatives and beneficiaries of the capitalist boom.
2. Middle bourgeoisie, merchants and professionals and come in her doctors lawyers, professors, and so on.
3. Petty bourgeoisie:
small merchants including officials, employees, etc.
The lower classes: WORKERS AND PEASANTS
We distinguish between agriculture (peasant) and industrial (workers), both groups make up the proletariat and, overall, living in precarious situations. Field workers produce food bases, the wealth produced by the industrial proletariat. The workers generally do their work days to 16 hours in exchange for wages and undignified living conditions. Living threatened by lack of protection against illness or unemployment, conditions that can condemn them to poverty and begging.
THE formation of the proletariat. SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF THE REVOLUTION NEW CITIES INDUSTRIALLAS current life can be characterized as an urban prodominancia by cities over the countryside. This urban development has occurred since the Industrial Revolution when moving large numbers of rural people to urban centers, seeking mainly work in factories. This influx of population to cities creates housing needs, And resulting e! Overcrowding of neighborhoods, infrastructure problems (water services, hygiene and sanitation, drainage, etc..) and provisioning (food, public transport, etc.). And psychological problems (individualization of life, loneliness, lack decomunicación and solidarity among people, etc..) Progress of the population in cities is due, among other things, the excess of births over deaths, considerable migration of farmers, and foreign immigration, such as Italian and Irish immigration to New York.