OK, the world is a different place now that the Industrial Revolution has spread around the globe. But, not everyone is happy with what is happening. Workers (men, women, and children) were being exploited as Laissez-faire policies let the Controllers of the Means of Production free to conduct their factories in any way they chose. However, many philosophers came up with new ideas to challenge the status quo. The most famous was Karl Marx. His theories called up for the workers to rise up and seize the means of production. Workers began to form unions to push for rights for all workers. Meanwhile, older empires tried to play catch up. The Ottomans and the Qing both tried to catch up with state sponsored Industrial programs, which usually failed to meet their overall goals.

1. LABOR UNIONS
2. SUFFRAGE
3. UTILITARIANISM
4. COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
5. PROLETARIAT

1. THE SADLER REPORT (1832), Michael Sadler
2. REFORM ACT of 1832 (1832), Parliament
3. TANZIMAT FERMANI (1839), Sultan Abdulmecid
4. THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (1848), Karl Marx
5. UTILITARIANISM (1863), John Stuart Mill

1. CHILD LABORERS IN MACON, GEORGIA IN 1903

2. RAISE THE BANNER OF MARX, ENGELS, LENIN, & STALIN! (1933)

3. THE 1876 CONSTITUTION (1905)

4. FOOCHOW (CHINA) ARSENAL, 1871

5. PYRAMID OF CAPITALIST SYSTEM (1911)

1. The Industrial Revolution spread around the world at varying levels of success.
2. Unchecked, the Industrialists went to extremes.
3. People worked for better conditions for workers, women, children, et al.
4. One way the workers got better conditions/pay etc. was by forming Labor Unions.
5. Older empires (Ottoman, Qing) tried to modernize with varying levels of success.