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Hi, my names dirty Dan the trash man and I'll be talking to you about the peasant class.

> - Working Class:
 *  Even though the peasant class was the lowest class in Europe, the were the largest class in regards to population. They started out having a standard position as slaves mainly working on farms. But as the French Revolution and Napoleonic War occured, their position changed dramatically. These wars marked the end of fuedal obligations and allowed many peasants to become free men and women. Although many still succeeded as farmers, others were forced into wage labor on large farms or in cities. They faced the same and maybe even worse working conditions as the working class. They were often distrustful of reformers and outsiders attempting to improve their conditions, becasue they were fearful of the potential consequences. Even though their position changed, they still held their rank distinctively at the bottom of the food chain. They were put to work for hours, and were often split up from their families, much like those of the working class. But the peasants had zero social mobility and were paid an even lower fee.
 * 1) This Class Consisted of unskilled and skilled wage laborers in masses into the cities.
 * 2) More than one half of these workers were women and children
 * 3) They were paid lower wages then men
 * 4) They Faced dangerous working conditions, harsh discipline used by factory managers.
 * 5) Workers in thsi class often lived in terrible, slum-like conditions.
 * 6) Employers wanted women and children over men for most jobs in factories because they could pay them less, and treat them worse.
 * 7) they could not enjoy the new luxuries that people in upper and middle classes could now afford
 * 8) Most of these workers had once worked on a farm.
 * 9) These workers depended heavily on the money they earned, to buy what they needed to live
 * 10) At first the working comditions were tolerable, as industrial competition icreased, work became harder and increasingly more dangerous
 * 11) Under the system of division of labor, workers did the same task over and over again, it became very monotonous
 * 12) many workers, primarily children, lost fingers and limbs, and their lives to the machinery.
 * 13) Workers in the textile factories worked 10 - 14 hours a day in unventilated rooms filled with lint dust.
 * 14) working class children usually did not go to schoo, they spent their days working instead.
 * 15) the industies offered women new opportunities for independence
 * 16) "mill girls" lived together in a mill boardinghouse, where they often gathered in study groups to discuss literature.
 * 17) Eventually these workers formed labor unions
 * 18) they organized strikes, where every worker refused to work, and sit-down strikes, where workers stopped working but refused to leave their work area
 * 19) Union leaders and an employers would meet together and to reach an agreement they would use collective bargaining
 * 20) By the beginning of the 1900s, union membership grew steadily in europe and the US

Screenplay: > > -Gather pictures and video clips of people from all of the social classes. > -Create a sldeshow of the videos and pictures. > -Record audio of our grooup talking about the different classes.
 * Aristocracy - Tim
 * Middle Class - Double team
 * Artisans/Skilled Workers - Smoot
 * Working Class - Morrison
 * Peasants - Dan


 * http://www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/History/Farming%20-%20Andrew%20Bailey/SHEEP%20FARMING%20LOCALLY_SHEEP%20DIPPING%20IN%20BB.jpg
 * http://www.hfinster.de/StahlArt2/images/steel-industry_BW-1800-2-23.03.2005.jpg
 * http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/spcollimages/labor/19clabor/Labor%20Prints/82-20_2.jpg
 * http://www.traditioninaction.org/Questions/Images/A_005_DutchNobility.jpg
 * http://www.burningcross.net/inquisition/swastica-cross-picts/clergy.jpg
 * http://www.animationarchive.org/pics/salon.jpg
 * http://www.scrollpublishing.com/store/media/1800s-09-US.jpg

__Research: Aristocracy :__ __Middle Class :__ __Artisans and skilled workers :__ __Working Class :__ __Peasants :__
 * Traditional landowners as well as upper gentry.
 * Challenged by new industrial wealth of middle class.
 * Only some aristocrats became capitalists.
 * They still controlled most of the important positions of power in the government and most of wealth in the nation.
 * Confident and assertive group in the the 19th century.
 * Consisted of bankers, industrialists, professional and white collar workers.
 * They opposed aristocratic privelige.
 * Virtues include hard work, self reliance, temperance, and the patriarchal family permeate all level of society.
 * Most independent class in work and position.
 * Eliminated guild system led to the opening of new free market possibilites.
 * Laborers faced competition from machines, but often learned to work with them.
 * They led labor movements with successful strikes despite illegal labor unions.
 * Consisted of unskilled and skilled wage laborers in masses into the cities.
 * More than one half the workers are women and children (lower wages, intimidation).
 * Faced dangerous working conditions, harsh discipline used by factory managers.
 * Often lived in slum conditions.
 * Still largest class in most of Europe in early 19th century, except for Britian.
 * Position changes with the end of fuedal obligations after the French Revolution and Napoleonic War.
 * Entering free market ended many protections brought by fuedal obligations.
 * Some still succeeded as farmers.

//World History: The Human Experience//