Read this scenario:Gretchen opens a high-end bakery in a busy section of town. Customers pay top dollar for her quality baked goods. Just two months later, Emily opens a bakery across the street. She also sells baked goods but uses lower-quality ingredients and has a less appealing shop. Some of Gretchen's customers take their business to Emily's bakery because her prices are lower.Which Industrial Revolution-era system or movement is reflected in this scenario?A.RomanticismB.CapitalismC.Social criticismD.MarxismSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Which of the following demonstrates Karl Marx’s conviction that social inequality would continue to grow?Group of answer choices“No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished with a sort of convulsive self-importance.”“The modern laborer . . . instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.”“A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, i.e., things set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.”“For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.”

Which development would most reflect Karl Marx's belief in the economic system that he predicted would replace free markets?A.Companies begin to sell their products in overseas markets.B.Governments eliminate all taxes on wealthy corporations.C.Workers share all the profits generated from a factory.D.Businesses refuse to hire workers who demand high wages.

Which 19th-century situation best represents Adam Smith's ideas on how the "invisible hand" of the market works?A.Large corporations made enormous profits under capitalist economic systems.B.Poor citizens in capitalist countries frequently faced extremely harsh lifestyles.C.Most middle-class citizens either became extremely poor or wealthy under capitalism.D.Countries that adopted capitalism were able to continue practicing mercantilism.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Which of the following is the best analysis of the industrial society?Select one:a.is a type of social and political system in which landholders provide land to tenants in exchange for their loyalty and serviceb.people in this stage of development of man is still nomadic thereby they hunt and gather food, the main theme is "survival"c.in this society, abuse is rampant because social stratification was expanded to include the middle class or business owners around this time in historyd.society marked by a transition from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy

Which social and economic factors led workers to develop class consciousness, and which sorts of workers were most likely to take part in trade associations?How were the utopian socialists envisioned by Charles Fourier, Etienne Cabet, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon critiques of nineteenth-century industrial capitalism? How did Karl Marx build both upon critiques of capitalism common in utopian socialism and upon the ideas of the German philosopher Hegel to develop his theory of a coming proletarian, or communist, revolution? What do you think of Marx's assertion that "all history is the history of class struggles"? Do you agree or disagree?What problems does Louis Blanc think social workshops would solve?