History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Karl Lueger, Industrial Revolution, John Stuart Mill

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 1401E
• Professor: Geoff Stewart

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Now everything is contingent, no ideas are accepted as absolute. People are now worried about: political development, new economic and social factors, feminism is driving people crazy. Muckrakers, social activists, state actors accepted, the identification of what needed to be done. Overtime things are getting better, the age of reform, evolutionary process. Characteristics: belief in social welfare, evolutionary change, the possibility. Push for: end to corruption and (cid:494)special interest(cid:495), governmental reform (cid:523)democracy, clean (cid:494)progressive(cid:495) politics(cid:524), education, medicine, economic. Bismark(cid:495)s germany: we will do everything we can to make things better. Conditions of life have to be improved, people(cid:495)s health have to be improved, people won(cid:495)t accept anything less anymore tolerate it anymore (cold comfort- (cid:498)don(cid:495)t worry your grandchildren will have it better than you do(cid:499)(cid:524) Conditions of life have gotten so bad its at the point where people would not. Unemployment insurance, old age pensions etc. through the state and trade.