SCLS II - ORAL PRESENTATION - AUGUST, 28TH

CAPITALISM AND LABOR LEGISLATION

INTRODUCTION:
refer to the Industrial Revolution unbalanced scale: PROS AND CONS

economic growth: new products were sold, new professions

appeared (peasants-farmers: traders)

technological changes: people changed their ways of doing things:

hand-made to manufactured objects, introduction of new technology
spinning wheel, steam engines

economic development: building of canals, roads and railways

were an advantage for foreign and domestic commerce

class division: unfair distribution of capitals; triumph of middle

class factories owners and businessmen over a landed class of
nobility and working people.

child labor: huge number of workers were orphan children (Oliver

Twist) who lived in workhouses and had to work long hours without
resting; Children as young as four were employed.

limited opportunity for education: poor children had to work

technological unemployment: no more farmers /underemployment:

well-educated people NO jobs, longed for full-time jobs NO
possibility, Seasonal jobs

highlight "CAPITALISM"

CAPITALISM
meaning: social and economic system where the means for producing and
distributing goods such as the land, factories, technology, HANDS small
minority
characteristics: capitalists more money to invest, aim was increase their
profits, not satisfy people's needs; the poor worked for a salary, better food
and clothing; investment in means and methods;

 highlight "EXPLOTED CHILDREN": children at the age of four were

employed; employees had also women on their labor forces: show

video

LABOR LEGISLATION ACTS:

why? necessary to provide protection against the abuses of workers, mainly
children
who? business people and factory owners against capitalism
proposals: refer to Acts in general