5.7

Economic Developments and Their Social Impact in the Period from 1750 to 1900

AP World History: Modern

New social classes

The industrial middle class (bourgeoisie)

The industrial working class (proletariat)

The persistence of the aristocracy

Urbanization

Growth of industrial cities

Living conditions

Urban reform

Impact on family life and gender roles

Working-class families

Middle-class families and the "cult of domesticity"

Economic inequality

New economic theories

Capitalism and classical economics

Socialism

Labor movements

Primary sources

Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)

Sadler Commission testimony on child labor (Britain, 1832)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)

Key figures

Key events summary

Vocabulary