HIST 1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Time Perception, Proletariat, Bourgeoisie
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The congress of vienna and the dream of. Initial impact o: long term impact, political response. Initial impact is generally bad for people, long term impact is mixed, political is decisive. Initial impact bad for proletariat good for bourgeoisie o: political response is socialism. Most people in first generation or 2nd or 3rd ir tended to make their standard of living worse than better. Start of ir, cheap labor was needed this implied and corresponded to ratio of people working in industry compared to agriculture. Results in 2 things: increase in agriculture productivity. Creates the proletariat which are basically workers in the urban. As people lose their jobs in the countryside they come to the city. Cities grow and percentage of people living in cities drastically increases. Between 1801-1850 cities had their population in the cities increase. Big cities a bigger changes where and how people live as well.