They had no trade unions for protection. Their homes were crowded and poorly built. Economic recession between 1899 and 1903 had also led to growing unemployment due to strikes throughout the Empire. If the Tsar had improved working and living conditions, there would never been a need for change in the empire. There was a long-term social and economic cause of the 1905 revolution, which was the continuing discontent of both peasants and landowners to the Emancipation act of 1861.
Which meant that Russian people can’t afford essential goods while their increase in wage can’t compare to the increase in prices. Therefore, the food shortage drove people to take part in the strike in Petrograd. Thirdly, the First World War had a huge political impact to Russia. A huge number of people needed help at war, at first, some organisations did play a support role but being an autocrat, the Tsar was unable to incorporate these groups and political parties into its war effort. With the resentment against the government, like the food shortage, a large number of people in Russia decided to
Now they couldn’t grave their animals and grow crops. This was a bad change for the poor but good for the land owners. After enclosure the land owners can have all the land to themselves, they don’t have to share also they could grow whatever they want. This improved the live of the landowners because they can get the land for themselves. This will result to that they can grow whatever they want without permission.
They would push supply down by offering farmers a sum of money in exchange for farmers not farming a set amount of land. However, most of these payments didn’t cover the expenses the farmers gained with the lost land pushing a lot of family farms out of business. He had other programs implemented that were detrimental to family farms. Corporate farms would eventually take advantage of this as many of these programs were disastrous to family farms but beneficial to large corporate farms. (“Ganzel B.”, 2003) So where have family farms gone from the 1930’s?
The reason why gin helped the population grow is because after the government put a tax on gin people began to have less miscarriages and the crime rate deceased. Gin helped the population increase because after the government banned the public from making gin and selling it unless they had a licence to sever it. The government also put a tax on gin so only very few people could afford it. Another reason why the government didn’t want people to drink gin is because it encouraged laziness, criminal behaviour. The government weren’t making money on it because it was easy to brew at home and it was also being imported from Holland.
Also, because tariffs were removed due to the new reform, less expensive food flooded into Africa. People who were solely dependent on farming lost their jobs and couldn’t keep up with the new and cheaper food coming in to the country and were forced to abandon their farms. This is crippling Africa because when workers can’t make money and invest into the economy, there is nothing stimulating the economy. Thus, everything is more expensive and money isn’t being made by businesses (Red Orbit). The other problem in African nations is the citizens don’t trust the government.
Because everyone finally realized the atrocities of these businesses, the government actually takes action to pass laws in support for better working conditions. Overall, The Jungle shows the readers and goes into in-depth details about the terrors and demanding efforts of working in the meatpacking industry as an immigrant at the turn of the twentieth century. In the beginning, the reader learns of the marriage between the Lithuanian immigrants Jurgis and Ona. Accustomed to Lithuania tradition, they were shocked to find that none of the guests during the reception left any money to pay off the festive party. With debt already, both desperately search for jobs in an economy where job offers are limited in numbers.
Losing the war angered and shocked German people as they felt stabbed in the back, additionally they were looking for someone to blame. German soldiers believed they did not lose the war and that the army was cheated. It also badly affected businesses and workers within Germany. Farmers were short of labourers to bring in the harvest as men had been in the military. By 1918, Germany was producing only 50% of the milk it had done before the war.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Russia was in a political crisis. The abolishment of serfdom in 1861 and the Industrial Revolution of the 1880s created an exodus from farms to cities as the former serfs sought employment in factories. With no representation for the workers, factories were unsafe and workdays long. Those who remained in the rural areas, found the liberation from serfdom to be anything but free as they struggled to pay for land that barely supported their existence. By the early 1900s, the proletariat, or working class, began to call for better wages and improved working conditions.
Due to the militaristic distractions of The Great War and the Tsar Nicholas II taking personal command of the army, Rasputin (Tsars right-hand man) took charge of the government, which caused for economic chaos. In response to this downfall, in March of 1917 thousands of workers went on strike and numerous riots took place, which would highlight the struggle of the workers. The state of the economy had formed into one of agriculture as the peasants began to see the land as their possession and this in relation to the mass of the population (with only 1.5% of the population owning 25% of the land) made it impossible to form an agriculturally efficient society and in turn pulled down the economy along side it. By late 1917 the banks, the war industry and grain trade was put under total state control which shows the extent of damage both WWI and inexperience had. Socially, Russia during this period too was experiencing exceedingly unsanitary conditions and tensions were rising.