- 2/26 Class
- Luddites- Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England in 1811 and later, smashing the new machines that they believed were putting them out of work.
- Are there luddites today?
- Yes there are people who don’t like technology
- Why are the luddites angry at the machines?
- They were taking their jobs
- Citizens, globalization ruined the US because we don’t manufacture as much
- Living standards for the working class were bad
- How did they respond to the “grossness” of the cities?
- 1848 Britain’s first public health law was passed and they began to have proper sanitation
- Utilitarianism- by Bentham
- Based in the belief “greatest good for the greatest number”
- 22.1 graph- as things became cleaner the amount of people dying declined, but wars and famines caused increases but there was a steady decline
- Germ theory- the idea that disease was caused by the spread of living organisms that could be controlled, invented by Louis Pasteur (invented pasteurization)
- Miasmatic theory- though that someone could get sick from inhaling environmental fumes but it’s wrong
- Rebuilding Paris
- The way the city was designed now had wider streets and parks were built
- It is important because there were more ways of public transportation
- Expropriation- taking away someone’s house to build something in its place
- They would be given money to move out of their house so they could put a highway or a park
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
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