Industrial Revolution and the Idea of Class

Introduction

The industrial revolution is known as the period of change characterized by a significant break in Europe from the existing legacy systems. This period was marked by the bourgeois revolutions that occurred in general on this continent and that marked the fate of contemporary history (Hobsbawm 46). However, with regard to economic, social, bourgeois revolution brought a new understanding of the property that came coupled with a new machine and therefore a new production that was to change the social substrata of the old continent. The emergence of large factories gradually wiped out the large proportion of farmers and laborers to make way for a large industrial working class living in cities.  A new world, the emergence of new forms of production, new gases, chemicals, metals and revolutionized it. A world took root, people began to choose other places to live, pests or because it was simple, thanks to new routes.

Thus, in this approach we wonder, what were the elements surrounding these revolutions and to what extent affected the formation of these classes and of society itself, in an economic environment that was moving at high speed, often exceeding to the same social factors involved in these changes (Hartwell 397).

These changes in production amounted to a widespread change in the way of understanding the economy by the holders of industries, raised a new way of production, capitalism, below the industrial revolution. Its essential features have been determined by different authors very differently. Marx stressed as essential features of capitalism, private ownership of means of mechanized industrial production and the existence of classes. Weber added later, as a fundamental principle of rationalization, the principle of profit and property market economy. According to Weber, "one of the fundamental features of the private economy is that rationalized on the basis of a rigorous mathematical calculation appears under a plan-oriented and exclusively towards achieving the desired economic results." 

Social Classes

To speak of social classes believe necessary and appropriate to define a set of ideas that we clarify certain conceptual gaps we have. Thus, in the words of Harold Kerber, say that:

Social inequality is the condition whereby people have unequal access to resources, services and positions that society values. Such inequality can arise as to how individuals and groups are sorted and evaluated each other, but, more importantly, relates to the different positions of the social structure.

Social stratification means that inequality has been embodied or institutionalized, and that a system of social relations that determine who gets what and why (Mokyr 658). When we say home care, we mean that it has established a system of hierarchy layers. People expect that individuals or groups to a certain position to be able to demand more influence and respect and to earn a greater share of goods and services. This inequality may or may not be accepted equally by most of society, but is recognized as the way things work.

We can define class as a grouping of like-minded individuals with similar political and economic interests within the stratification system. (Mokyr 658)

During this period we will begin to structure two ...