HISTORY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ragged Dick, Alan Rufus, Shoeshiner
23 Oct 2016
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Twin revolutions: economic (britain) and political (france: national abundance: industrial revolution offers a world of prosperity, equality of opportunity: political change ends sharp hierarchies and difference/deference and the start of a new world of mobility. I(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)"s, (cid:1013)% of (cid:449)o(cid:396)ke(cid:396)s a(cid:396)e i(cid:374)ju(cid:396)i(cid:374)g the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es dail(cid:455) i(cid:374) the u . In the 1(cid:1012)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)"s, a(cid:374) auto(cid:373)ati(cid:272) de(cid:272)ouple(cid:396) (cid:449)as invented but it was expensive so the owners did(cid:374)"t adopt the(cid:373) (even though they could afford them) At the same time that workers are experiencing (cid:862)miseration(cid:863) (low wages, dangerous conditions), the people who own production are accumulating wealth like no one else and as no one else has before. Richest humans of all time are as follows: john d. rockefeller, oil, andrew carnegie, steel, william the conqueror, conquering, cornelius vanderbilt, railroads, alan rufus, land. How to make sense of poverty in rich societies? (alger vs. marx)
