One of the most affected area was the working class. Laborers were affected by government's decisions. How did workers live during that time live? How did they react to show their unconformity against the government? and How could it be compared to our days?
In the early nineteenth century only men with above a certain amount of wealth or land were able to vote, and people, especially the working class concluded that this wasn’t fair and started to in a sense, rise up, and join the charter movement which is tracked back to eighteenth-century radicals. Let’s look at more specific economic reasons that led to the charter being formed. Firstly, industrial and agricultural workers were still facing harsh conditions in their workplaces, mainly low wages, periods of low unemployment and high prices. This led to a country felt resentment of the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the sense of not being able to change anything through mainstream parliamentary politics, which was of course at this time dominated by upper classes. This leads on to another cause that led to the Chartism movement, the disappointment of the 1832 Reform Act.
(Rodriguez 61) Immediately, the government began to form legislation to prohibit the unfair labor practices found in sweatshops. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set a federal minimum wage, overtime pay, prohibited minors under the age of 16 from working, and prohibited minors under the age of 18 from working certain jobs which were considered dangerous. ("Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Amended" 5-7) This effectively made child labor illegal and heavily restricted sweatshop labor within the United States. Now finding their practices illegal, larger companies began to move their illegal labor practices abroad. (Brown, Deardorff, Stern 7) Developing countries had much less strict labor laws than the United States and these companies found it easy to exploit them.
It set out new employment rights of all workers in factories, mines, munitions plants and shipyards. It regulated working hours which increased on average by six hours a week and rates of pay. The DAP also had the power to punish workers. Although German workers lost their freedom to act collectively against employers, at least the DAF established what the minimum working standards should be which prevented serious exploitation of labour by employers Solving unemployment was important to Hitler for many reasons. Unemployed workers were potential supporters of the communists, Hitler’s rivals.
Factory workers suffer for the first half of the century as well as the agricultural workers who have to endure the consequences of this evolution. Political protests get more and more common and the government suffers from the pressure of the working class. Changes take place during the second half, and a greater equality is achieved at the end of the reign of Queen Victoria. How did the political protests change rights in the 19th century? Oscar Wilde, writes in The Soul Of Man Under Socialism, that for progress to be made, people have to be disobedient to the rules they are subjected to: « Agitators are absolutely necessary.
I agree to an extent, that Bloody Sunday was the most important cause of the 1905 revolution because it acted as a trigger for the revolution, however there are other factors to be taken into account, as Bloody Sunday was also caused by economic factors, political factors, social factors and other short-term events, such as the Russo-Japanese war. Economic factors played a key role in causing the 1905 Revolution. One economic factor that helped cause Bloody Sunday was Witte’s economic reforms; he placed extra taxation on the peasantry and encouraged the rapid growth of towns and cities. The extra taxation led to great resentment from the peasantry who began to support radicals such as the SRs, who played a part in the 1905 Revolution. These taxations also led to strikes and demonstrations becoming commonplace so could have caused Bloody Sunday itself.
Germans were forced to pay for various repairs across different country what inevitably caused damage to country’s economy. The instability across the nation has been consistently rising, and the ruling government had to resign. In Italy the dissatisfaction of the nation with the government has also been significant, especially taking into account the defeat at Ceporetto or the collapse of the economy, which over past years was based on manufacturing weapons and other equipment that was needed for participation in the war. Both in Italy and Germany people were desperate for a change, they needed economic growth and development. There were no jobs, poverty was spreading.
Supporters argue that it is unfair that people can work hard, and put in a 40 hour work week, but still not make enough to support their families. Critics of the wage increase say that raising minimum wage would force employers to fire employees, lower their hours, or used automated machines rather than human workers. Some critics also contend that the jobs that pay minimum wage do not require skill, are for uneducated workers, and are not meant to support a
‘Trade Unions fail to serve their members and damage firms.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? Trade union is an organisation of workers who combine together to further their own interests. Trades unions were first organised around the start of the twentieth century. An individual worker is likely to be in a relatively weak bargaining position compared to employer, so they organise themselves together to bargain collectively. They elect or appoint a representative to bargain on their behalf so can have a much larger effect than each individual do it themselves.
Increasing strikes will result in greater costs of state and local government and the taxes as well. Therefore, public employees should not be allowed to strike. All of this creates a critical issue in employment regulations; how can the government achieve a bargain with unhappy workers effectively, and still achieve quality labor. Often a strike becomes the sole way to gain attention of the higher authorities like the government. However, it must be stated that the worker has his own rights and