The Role of Autonomy and Responsibility Held by the Bourgeoisie during

The Role of Autonomy and Responsibility Held by the Bourgeoisie during the Industrial transmutation During the Industrial Revolution the population was broken up into two classes the nonage was the rich, industrial middle class, the bourgeoisie, and the majority was the poor working(a) class, the proletariat. The bourgeoisie believed in their rights to gain wealth and preserve individuality and in their duty to advance these rights, which in turn determined the harsh laboring and living conditions of the working class. The indignities forced upon the light class also caused movements that challenged the bourgeoisie to alter their beliefs. These include the creation of Communism, the Christian Socialist Movement, utopian models, and other theoretic views. The demands for amicable reforms from these movements along with the demands from the proletariat and other influential members of society, forced the bourgeoisie to convert their views to include moral justificati ons for their actions. Classical economists invented these justifications. They claimed that grim wages were necessary to hold in survival, that the proletariat took advantage of the bourgeosie members, and finally that the proletariat members were responsible for their poor state. The bourgeoisie maintained their rich lifestyle only through their exploitation of the lower class, the proletariat. This exploitation included poor working conditions, child labor, long hours, and low wages. The industrial bourgeoisie established factories in order to produce the closely efficient products at the least expensive cost. These factories, especially mines, were extremely dangerous. 3 hundred forty-nine deaths occurred just in the mines of England in 18... ...4 Rogers 149. 5 Rogers 136. 6 Rogers 146. 7 Rogers 139. 8 Rogers 136. 9 Seed, John. Capital and Class organic law in Early Industrial England Social History v. 18 1993 p. 17-30. 10 Rogers 135. 11 Rogers 144. 1 2 Rogers 145. Bibliography- Rogers, Perry M. Aspects of Western Civilization Problems and Sources in History trinity Edition (Upper Saddle NJ Prentice Hall, 1996), 138. - Seed, John. Capital and Class institution in Early Industrial England Social History v.18 1993 p.17-30. This article provided a synopsis of T Koditscheks Class Formation and Urban Industrial ships company Bradford 1750-1850. It showed the roles autonomy and responsibility played in the industrialists influence of the economic, political, and social spheres during this block and illustrated the class antagonism between capital and labor.