Trump's America or The Industrial Revolution?

We started off the class talking of the children
      Unlike Hughes suggested, we cannot just say that they "vanished" like that God-awful book we had to read.

• so why would reducing the children's work hours be "bad?"
• the parents have lost all of that extra income 
• it's no longer like the putting out system where there was a deadline but also leisure... now everyone was working 9-5 (or whatever they worked back then) and had no time to chill with the fam. 

Luddites

Here are some characteristics of this "classy" (kidding) group 

• they were sworn to secrecy, and made it publicly known that if you were found to be a traitor, they would gladly chop yo head off
• very cultish 
• saw the manufacturers as these heartless, money-grabbing machines. 
• The Luddites were the emotional reaction to the new machines 
• Very violent 

So the country of England was prospering economy wise, yet the people were still suffering and not happy. 

• they no longer need people to work all of these jobs 
• Now, the machines offered a cheaper and more diligent labor than the lower class 

People who complain about "outsourcing" can be called modern day luddites 

• Trump's America?   
• We want all of our things built in America, yet it is way cheaper to be made in a sweatshop in Taiwan. 

As Yarnall put so perfectly... 

   "Angry people, Angry people, Losing Jobs, Losing Jobs..." pretty synonymous to me. Alright then. 

Wrap up thought on the Luddites: 

They shared the sentiments of the majority of the lower class→ they themselves were a radical group and therefore a minority.

So this new group of factory owners and manufacturers strengthened the middle class

• both in wealth and size

Can be known as the "Golden Age of the Middle Class"

The poor are now no longer working, and there is now a distinct knowing of what class you belong to. 

• Marxist theory: socioeconomic status determines where you’re at in society. 
• poor/rich/middle classes

Finally, just to mess with everyone's heads, England decides to surprise us all with a "Regency" class that only Lily has heard of.

• turns out, Pride and Prejudice is based off of this time period, NOT the Victorian Age (Thanks Quick).

Finally, Canada did cure cancer.

Erin comes in with a mic drop

peace, yo.