Wednesday, February 28, 2018


  • 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
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  • 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 transportationimage
  • 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

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