Impact of the Industrial Revolution in Europe

In the last ten years of the 19th century, social and cultural changes were beginning to emerge as decisively as material changes that had come about as a result of the Industrial Revolution. In order to understand the position of women affected by the Industrial Revolution in these years, it is necessary to understand the social problems that had emerged because of it. The key point, as will be noted hereafter, was this: that socialism was equated to unionism, both were equated to anarchy, and all three were highly politicized realms of belief and action. The fear of unions on the part of the bourgeois and ruling classes in Europe stemmed in significant part from the then relatively recent Marxist interpretation of the Industrial Revolution. Tuchman's discussion of the socialist answer to problems of an industrial society encompasses Marx's argument.

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h workhouse, styled as a Temporary Shelter for Protestant Women, operating in Paris in 1890: We admit only women recommended by persons known to us; they must be supplied with an admission card, or a note addressed specially to the directress of the shelter . . . Work consists of housecleaning, laundry, general housekeeping and work done for the profit of the house. Any resident who shows ill will or laziness in the work of the shelter cannot continue in residence and will be dismissed by the directress at a moment's notice, the admission card notwithstanding . . . The time needed to find a job will be granted to the resident, but they should never go out without the permission of the directress. We rely on the discretion of the residents not to take advantage of leaving the premises, and if possible, to take care of their business by letter . . . order and silence are required in the workroom, as well as in the dormitories (Riemer & Fout, 1980, pp. 9-10). Thus an agent of social control asserts itself in Paris in a way more suited to a grammar boarding school than to the adults who inhabited French workhouses--"governesses, servants too old to work, widows left with children and without resources" (Riemer & Fout, 1980, p. 9
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