World History › Section U · Life and labor in the industrial world › Topic U.5
Reform and revolutionary ideologies
Faced with filthy cities, dangerous work and deep poverty, people answered in three broad ways: governments regulated, reformers campaigned, and socialists and anarchists called for a different society altogether. This topic weighs what each approach tried and achieved.
In this topic
- Three answers to the industrial age
- Cleaning and rebuilding cities
- Factory laws and social insurance
- Worked example: why Bismarck insured workers
- Moral reform and women's activism
- Explaining poverty
- Worked example: comparing two views of poverty
- Trade unions and labour parties
- From utopias to Marx
- Socialists, anarchists and their critics
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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