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| Improved the steam engine by adding a separate condenser where the steam could condense without cooling the cylinder. |
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| Developed the puddling furnace, which allowed pig iron to be refined in turn with coke. |
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| Developed by Cort, allowed pig iron to be refined in turn with coke. |
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| A large fair designed to showcase Britain as the “workshop of the world.” |
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| Place where The Great Exposition was held. It was an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and iron. |
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| Economist who believed that population growth would always exceed the growth of the food supply. |
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| economist who developed the “iron law of wages” which stated that the pressure generated from population growth would cause wages to sink to subsistence level. |
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| Law developed by Ricardo which stated that wages would always sink to subsistence level. |
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| What people began to refer to economics as, due to the negative theories presented by Ricardo and Malthus. |
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| German businessman who used British technology to form his own factories. |
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| German thinker who reflected the role of government in industrialization. He considered the growth of modern industry of the utmost importance because manufacturing was a primary means of increasing people’s well-being and relieving their poverty (text) |
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| high tariff, abolition of internal tariffs, basically the idea of the government helping the country to industrialize. |
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| Group of handicraft workers who destroyed factories and machinery. |
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| Man who accused the middle class of mass murder and a early influence on Karl Marx and other socialists. |
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| they were paid to find workers for industrialists, and they also fired workers. Basically, they were like a factory manager. |
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| Law which limited the child’s workday to 10 hours. |
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| Act that prohibited underground work for all women as well as boys under the age of 10. |
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| cotton manufacturer who pioneered industrial relations. He developed the first early national unions. |
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| A socialist community in Indiana which was formed by Owen. |
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| Amalgamated Society of Engineers |
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| A new model union which won many benefits for engineers. |
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| Group of people who wanted universal voting rights for men. They also wanted to limit the workday to 10 hours. |
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| Grand National Consolidated Trades Union |
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| The earliest and most visionary national union, but it later collapsed. |
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