Industrial Revolution
The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation.
Division of Labor
The assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency.
Steam Engine
An engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power.
Laissez Faire
A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
Cult of Domesticity
Was a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the nineteenth century in the United States and Great Britain.
Mechanization
The condition of having a highly technical implementation.
Utopian Socialism
Socialism achieved by the moral persuasion of capitalists to surrender the means of production peacefully to the people.
Socialism
A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Labor Unions
An organized association of workers, often in a trade profession, former to protect and further their rights and interests.
Karl Marx
Founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engles in 1848.
Anarchism
Beliefs in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion.