entrepreneur | | Women's right to vote |
macadam | | An association that speaks for all workers of a particular trade |
bourgeoisie | | The upper class, according to Marx |
corporation | | A new, quick method of moving supplies and people around |
enclosures | | A group that atttacked factories and machinery that they blamed for losing their jobs |
scientificfarmer | | A spy that stole machinery plans from Britain and started a factory in the US |
cottongin | | An economic system in which money is invested in buisness ventures with the goal of making a profit |
capitalism | | Relating to cities |
urban | | A system where everything is owned by the government,and private property is abolished |
railroad | | A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a buisness |
lowell | | Cloth |
tenantfarmer | | A cheap, efficient way to power things |
union | | Commerce between nations without economic barriers or restrictions |
communism | | A system where the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all |
utilitarianism | | Wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population |
cholera | | Farmers that rent land from large landowners |
spinningjenny | | Wrote Principles of Political Economy and Taxation |
luddites | | A machine that cleans cotton, removing seeds than is possible by hand |
proletariat | | The act of seeds sprouting and growing |
laissezfaire | | Able to care for oneself |
collectivebargaining | | Refusal to work |
selfsufficient | | Large fields |
malthus | | The economic policy of letting owners of industry and buisness set working conditions without interference |
monopoly | | Having complete control of an industry, including production, transportation, and sale of products |
utopia | | spying |
Womenssufferage | | Big factory town in Massachusettes |
karlmarx | | The working class, according to Marx |
germinate | | Wrote the Communist Manifesto |
slater | | A machine to spin cotton more efficiently |
socialism | | A law making it illegal to hire children under 9 |
rural | | The idea that people should judge ideas,institutions,and actions based on their usefulness |
steamengine | | A farmer that experimented with new mrthods of agriculture |
middleclass | | Large rocks for drainage, covered with a smooth layer of crushed rocks |
textile | | Negotiations between workers and their employers |
strike | | A buisness owned by stockholders who share in its proftis but aren't personally responsible for its debts |
freetrade | | A professor who defended the idea of a free economy |
factoryact | | A group that is neither poor nor rich, but enjoys a comfortable lifestyle |
adamsmith | | out in the country, sparsly populated |
espionage | | A perfect society |
ricardo | | A disease contracted from drinking dirty water |