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    • … happened to education in America: “The Civil War and the Industrial Revolution changed everything. Americans started moving to cities and society demanded more education than families could provide, even when they got together. A wave of immigrants, primarily European, arrived on our shores …

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    • … Wages are very low and show no signs of increasing quickly or in real terms, there are no effective labour laws, no effective prohibition on child labour and industrial health and safety laws are not policed”. Thus, while we observe industrial safety and environment laws, we are forced to compete …

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    • … will not get the payment this week, in fact they won’t get it until next Christmas. Moral outrage will not combat child pornography This successful operation undertaken by the AFP highlights the importance of giving adequate funding to the AFP and it is disturbing that the Rudd Labor Government has …

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    • … of the birth places of the company town/mega-concentrations of factories in the American Industrial Revolution. But by the 1960s, most of the mills had closed and moved to the Carolinas or Georgia. As a child there was one mill that was still producing specialty fabrics near the radio station where my aunt …

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    • … for a moment the present crisis is just another business cycle, a phase we must go through, think again. 533,000 jobs lost in the month of November alone while the figures for December are no less promising The recent string of bank failures and the resulting credit crunch Industrial giants like Ford …

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    • … in the work of theorists of the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. Communism attempts to offer an alternative to the problems believed to be inherent with capitalist economies and the legacy of imperialism and nationalism. Communism states that the only way to solve these problems …

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    • … it was in 1973. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau) Since 2000 family household income has declined $1669 while productivity has risen 15%. This is the first time since the industrial revolution that wages are falling while productivity and profits are rising. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau) Number of Americans …

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    • … in a church and said like “I know a lot of restaurant owners and the only wat I can help you guys is to find you new jobs.” A month after that he opens up this new restaurant and he says “I can not help you I only own fifteen percent,” We said “No, some of us have worked for you for twenty years, we …

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    • … labor and child labor. A longer working week, a longer working day, the abolition of holidays. Mechanization and reduced wages between 1690 and 1720 speeded up the twin processes of profit and capital accumulation in the hands of the elite.” [i] Work days could be ten hours long or as much as sixteen …

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    • … Standards Act, were passed and institutions, such as OSHA, were created. However, while organized labor worked toward these goals I argue that they were inevitable. The economic growth made possible by the Industrial Revolution also caused a massive societal disruption. Families which used to live …




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