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Edexcel History 2. Industrialisation, Protest, and Unionism

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The practice of providing for people's needs without giving them rights or responsibilities
Paternalism
A movement which saw alcohol and drunkenness as barriers to working class improvement
Temperance Movement
The percentage of the population of Birmingham living in back-to-backs in 1801
67%
Historians who have emphasised the way in which the industrial revolution damaged lives and people's opportunities
Pessimists
An organisation representative of trade unions nationally, founded in 1868 with the convening of a general trades congress of 24 delegates representing 118,000 union members by Samuel Nicholson, president of the Manchester and Salford Traders Council, largely shunned by the London Traders Council
Trades Union Congress
The form in which wages were frequently paid
Truck Tickets
The percentage of workers under the age of 19 in 1842
33%
The year that the Bank of England was founded
1694
The new model union leaders who acted as a sort of cabinet for the trade union movement in the 1860's
Junta
A worker opposed to strikes and militancy, as well as those brought in to break up strikes (strike breakers)
Knobstick/Nob/Black-un
William Cartwright's mill at Brighouse, West Riding of Yorkshire, which was unsuccessfully attacked by 200 Luddites in April 1812 resulting in the deaths of two Luddites
Rawford Mill
Combinations of workers offering mutual protection through benefits such as insurance which sometimes acted as a cover for activities more akin to those of trade unions
Friendly Societies
The percentage of workers under the age of 20 in 1821
49%
Study which relates the cooperative movements social equality with economic practices
Cooperative Economics
An owner or manager of industrial and/or business enterprise whose initiatives helps to increase productivity and profit
Entrepreneur
The percentage of land enclosed between 1750 and 1830, mostly located in the Midlands
20%
The first factory to use a power loom for weaving cloth, which was attacked and burnt down by hand-loom weavers
Grimshaw's of Manchester
The increase in the membership of friendly societies from 1801 to 1850?
600,000 to 2,800,000
An act that required 3 hours schooling a day for those 8 to 13 years old, limited working to no more than 6 and a half hours a day for those aged 8 to 13, and 12 hours a day for women, and required dangerous machinery to be fenced
1844 Factory Act
An act introduced by Sir Robert Peel the elder applying to apprentices and overseen by justices of the peace, which though poorly enforced limited working hours to 12 hours a day, forbade night working, required ventilation and cleanliness, and required some education
1802 Factory Act
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