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    Enclosure acts

    It led to abolish open field and enclose properties, the consequences of this were: Concentration of land ownership, improving farming techniques and production aimed at the market, these were positive ones but they were also negative ones like: poor farmers couldn´t enclose lands so they had to became labourers in exchange for wage or move to cities.
  • John Kay´s flying shuttle

    It increased the speed of production and let to have wider fabrics
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    First Industrial Revolution

    Interconnected changes driven by innovation pioneered by Great Britain
  • James Wtt´s steam engine

    its use was burning coal then boiled water, steam, then pressure and finally continuous movements transferred to machinery. It applied mostly in transport
  • Invention of the power loom

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    Luddite movement

    First workers to protest in England (early C.19th)
    Violent destruction of machinery (responsible
    for low wages and unemployment).
  • Stephenson´s Steam locomotive

    Is used in transport in rail it helped to get more passengers in rails in less time with lower prices
  • Grand National Consolidated Trades Union

    Brought together workers to: Deffend the right of association, improve wages and regulate child labour.
  • Invention of the Bessemer converter

    Was one of the new techniques of iron industry that treated steel
  • First International

    Marxists and anarchists
    advocated the need for workers of the world to unite to
    achieve social emancipation.
    Ideological differences between Marxists, anarchists and
    trade unions made it unworkable and it split in 1876.
  • Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital

  • Second International

    Second International was founded by Marxist in 1889 to
    coordinate the various socialist parties.
    They stablished symbols like:
    Anthem "The Internationale"
    International Worker´s Day