Women were another vulnerable group because they were always paid at a lower rate than men. There was no safety net for people who fell into poverty other than resorting to the ‘workhouse’ which had been established to deal with cases of extreme poverty in Trade unions had little power as the Taff Vale Incident of 1901 showed and Friendly Societies could only provide a limited amount of help. Attitudes to poverty in the early 20th century were quite unsympathetic many politicians from both the Liberal and Conservative party felt that poverty came from personal laziness. Both parties had an attitude of “laissez-faire” i.e. non interference from the government.
After 570 C.E. when the imperial structure was restored, Buddhism quickly gave way to criticism which ended in the eradication of Buddhism (As stated in documents 4 and 6). It is meaningful to stand out that the previous 6 documents were all written by scholars or the Emperor, so we don’t really know what the peasants and the majority of the Chinese population believed and thought about Buddhism. If there was an additional document written by a regular peasant which would probably state that they (peasants) accepted Buddhism due to their poor living conditions in their agricultural work, then it would be proven that the majority of China accepted Buddhism; while the rich (scholars and Emperor) rejected Buddhism because they thought it was a threat to their regime. When Buddhism reached China thanks to the construction of the Silk road during the first century C.E., the initial feeling among Chinese, or at least their scholars, was that of acceptance and admiration towards Buddhist monks.
Corruption, school-dropouts, and alcoholism are to blame for most of the poor. The land the Native-Americans live on is hard to harvest; therefore farming for food and vegetables can be hard. Property rights on the reservation tend to be non-existent, and weaken prosperity for this culture. Most of lands that Native-Americans live are communally, no one is able to get a clear title to his or her land, making is hard to borrow money or establish credit for improvements or investments they will benefit families. This is called tragedy of the commons, when everyone owns the land no one really owns the land which results in rundown housing due to lack of investments on the property or housing.
These other causes are all political social and economical factors which helped to free the serfs. And had the Tsar taken a more liberal view on his rule the emancipation may never have happened. Firstly there are many political causes for the emancipation of the serfs. The bankruptcy of nobles who were the tsar’s main supporters was, caused because of the inefficiency of using serfs to farm lands, which meant most nobles were losing money and by 1860 over 60% of serfs were mortgaged to the government meaning they were “unofficially” no longer tied to their land. This meant serfdom was already coming to its own natural end, and for Alexander II to support his nobles he had to emancipate the serfs so they could go start increasing their wealth and get out of debt.
One aspect of the workers’ lives that needs to be considered in order to see whether the Communist leaders did less than the Tsars to improve them is their living standards. The quality of life generally declined for workers throughout the period, with the only period of significant change under Khrushchev, however even his reforms cannot out way the deterioration of standards earlier in the Communist period, whereby Lenin and Stalin seemed to show a complete disregard for the improvement of living standards; For instance, the amount of living space for a worker fell from 8.5m squared in 1905, to 5.8m squared by 1935. A significant motive for this seems to be due to ideology; Stalin in
However, Chiang and the GMD failed to gain population which was due to the lack of help and improvement towards the living standards of the millions of peasants in China, showing the GMD was only representative of minority groups and never fully solved all domestic problems in the country. In order these solve domestic problems in China, it was clear that foreign influence needed to be completely eliminated to enable China to become independent again. Nationalism was one of the GMD’s main three principles, so Chiang should have seen freeing China from foreign controls as a priority. Although he noticed this was important and went about fixing it by increasing the strictness of the Chinese law over foreign concessions which decreased the total number of foreign concessions from 33 to 13. Chiang did solve the domestic problem of foreign control in China; he relied on having foreigners around.
75% of Italy’s grain had to be imported!! Told farmers he’d pay them a lot if they grew grain, and gave them tractors too. So they did, tearing up all their self-sufficient crops. When American and Soviet grain became really cheap, Mussolini dropped his farmers like the proverbial hot brick. So what happened??
Most people who live in communist countries live in poverty. It is very hard to move out of a communist country because most people don’t have enough money and the government makes it very hard for people to get in and out of the country. Most modern interpretations of communism have modified the 'equality' factor, to reward harder workers and offer fewer benefits to those who do not contribute. The U.S.S.R (used to cover most of Eastern Europe, now split up in to Russia and other smaller countries.) used to be run under a communist regime until people started demanding more freedom and the country also went bankrupt.
Chinese Family and Kinship China is a mysterious country with 5000 years of history. It was hardly understood by western countries in ancient times. Westerners regard China as “Ancient Rome in Asia”, they exclaim those goods (such as porcelain and silk) as exquisite beyond compare, and even idolize missionaries returned from China. They can only learn very limited amount of knowledge about China from the books of Marco Polo. Why most Chinese people have no religion?
Many of them were illiterate with wives back in China. The Chinese weren’t settlers, but Sojourners. They planned to make enough money in the United States and return back to their homeland to start a business or buy land to farm. Japan was closed off from the West until the end of the 19th century because Shogun controlled the lesser feudal lords via hostage system, while the only outsiders that were permitted into Japan were Koreans and Chinese merchants. Before the Tokugawa Era, Portuguese missionaries were able to recruit up to 300,000 converts by the end of the 16th century.