HISTORY 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Peterloo Massacre, System On A Chip, Class Conflict
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19th century not as impt for its political narrative (like 20th century w/ wwi and wwii), but for ideas, values, soc, culture so we"ll talk about nationalism, romanticism, etc. , rather than just going chronologically: intro. Condition of the working class (wc) industrial manchester in 19c - industrializatn created new sort of place/human being/soc. Appalling conditions esp in first half of 19c. Engels" descriptn in conditions of wc in engl - grotesque, but also a new way of organizing space/soc. Two reactions: the labor movemt + marxism labor movement and marxism aren"t the same thing; complicated relationship. Marx was dom intellectual voice in eur history for 150yrs - still relevant. Wc tries to protect themselves from horrors of industrialization. Luddites flourished in eng 1790s-1810s - destroyed machinery that robbed them of their jobs. Used now to mean ignrant ppl who blindly lash out at change/tech; but luddites imagined themselves as defenders of law/order against crimes of factory owners.
