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PSIR205 The Building of European Supremacy The growth of industrialism • Increasing productivity capacity • Modern nation-states emerge, with centralized bureaucracies, large electorates, and competing political parties • Big corporations appeared • Labour was organized under trade unions • Predominance of urban life • Socialism mobilized the working force and masseses Population and Migration • Sudden increase in Europe’s population • Migration started from rural areas to cities due to the removal of legal hindrances for peasants, developments in transportation, availability of cheap land and good wages. • Around 50 million emigrated from Europe between 1850 and 1930s to United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, or Argentina • People mostly moved from Scandinavia (Norway in particular), Ireland, Germany. Towards the end of 19th century, southern and eastern Europeans left the continent. The Second Industrial Revolution • First industrial revolution: textiles, iron, and applications of steam power • Second industrial revolution: production of steel, chemicals, electricity, and oil • NEW INDUSTRIES: Cheap steel production; growing of chemical industry in Germany (industry and research collaboration), electricity, invention of the internal combustion engine and of the automobile (Daimler) • BIG COMPANIES: Standard Oil of the United States, British Shell Oil, and Royal Dutch Industrialization and economic difficulties • • • • • • • Migration from rural areas Banking crises of 1873 Still, living standards increased in Europe Workers continued to live in not good conditions Unemployment increased Trade unions and socialist parties emerged Consumer demand boosted the economy: food prices got cheaper, enabling people to spend more on other consumer goods • Urbanization created new markets • New business strategies were developed: department stores, chain stores, packaging, etc..) MIDDLE CLASSES • The middle class was the largest consumer group, and it set the standards of the taste and values • The London Great Exhibition of 1851 was a manifestation of the material comfort provided by industrial revolution The London Great Exhibition of 1851 Social Distinctions within Middle Classes • Wealthy business men • Small entrepreneurs and professionals • White collar workers, or petite bourgeoisie (nonmanual workers) • Shop-keepers were not happy with the idea of competing with department stores • There was an increased supply of professionals, which meant that skilled jobs were also highly competitive LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY URBAN LIFE • Massive urban growth • Migration of peasants from tradition social support systems to poor housing • Anonymity, and unemployment • Problems arose among different ethnic groups • Relocation of Russian Jews in Western Europe led to anti-Semitism The redesign of cities • Migration to urban areas required important changes in the city • Most European cities were redesigned • Residents of cities moved to the peripheries, and the city centre was redesigned for new buildings including governmental and business offices, as well as theatres The new Paris • George Haussmann was appointed by Napoleon III • Whole districts were destroyed, eliminating narrow roads that rioters build barricades. • Rebuilding of Paris also created many public jobs The new Paris after Haussmann Urban Sanitation • Impact of Cholera: Public health was improved • Expanded Government Involvement in Public Health • New Water and Sewer Systems: Housing reform and Middle-Class Values • Housing reform was proposed as a solution to medical, moral, and political problems • Descent housing: good family life, and healthy, moral, happy, and stable political communities Industrialization and Women • Social disabilities of Women: – Property – Family Law – Educational Barriers • New Employment Patterns: – New jobs: elementary school teachers, secretaries, low skilled jobs • Withdrawal from the labour force: – this was mostly due to marriage, and the husbands also started earn better wages Jewish Emancipation • Jews started obtain citizenship in most of Europe after the French Revolution, except in Russia • In Russia, Jews encountered many social restrictions. They needed a special passport, banned from state service, and may Jews were not accepted to the higher education. Pogroms, organized by society together with the Police force, aimed at intimidating Jewish communities. • Many Jews fled from Russia • From expanded political rights to anti-Semitism during the late 19th century LABOR, SOCIALISM, AND POLITICS • From street riots to institutionalization: Labour established trade unions, political parties, and attached to socialist ideology • Trade Unionism: – Recognition of workers right to organize • Democracy and Political Parties: – Extension of suffrage in Europe, except Russia led to a change in the strategies of the working class Marx and First International • Establishment of the International Working Men’s Association (First International) in 1864 • Marx approved collaboration with the capitalist system in his address • Trade unions’ activities were banned in France after 1871, following Paris Commune experience • First International was dissolved in 1873 Great Britain: Fabianism and Welfare Programs • Trade unions supported Liberal Parties in Great Britain. • Fabian Society was founded in 1864. It was the most powerful socialist organization. It adopted reformism, as opposed to a revolutionary strategy for social change. • First proto-welfare programs were adopted by David Lloyd George government France: opportunism rejected • French socialists refused to work with the government. They called this act as opportunism, a label given to Alexander Millerand who accepted to work in the French cabinet. • The Second International ordered France to form a single party, which would be found by 1914. • Trade unions avoided political action, as they considered themselves alternative to political parties. They preferred general strikes. Trade unions’ ideology was shaped by George Sorel. Germany: Social Democrats and Revisionism • The first universal welfare programs were implemented by Bismarck during 1880s. • Erfurt Program: German Social Democratic Party took a harsh stand against cooperation with German Empire. Karl Kautsky and Bebel, who formulated the program, preserved the belief in end of capitalism. But, they aimed to achieve this via political participation • Eduard Bernstein developed a social democratic critique of Marx. In contrast to the expansion of the proletariat, as Marx predicted, middle class enlarged. Extension of the franchise also made the revolution redundant. • SPD grew rapidly in terms of its membership and electoral gains. Russia: Industrial Revolution and Bolshevism • Nicholas II initiated modernization in Russia. • Industrialism created social discontent. • Emancipation of the serfs failed to boost agricultural productivity • Mir (or village) and kulaks • Establishment of the Social Revolutionary Party, the Liberal Constitutional Democratic Party, and a Socialist Democratic Party Lenin • He was exiled and spent seventeen years in Switzerland. • He was a member of Social Democrats. • Revolution by a Vanguard party • 1903 London Congress of the Social Democrats and their split into two: Bolsheviks and Mensheviks • The revolution of 1905: Establishment of Duma