Enclave: concentration of a certain type of people
Diaspora: The dispersal of a population, often resulting in large settlements in different parts of the world.
Pogroms: systematic attack of a certain people
Atlantic Slave Trade: Slaves from Africa were brought to and sold into slavery in the Americas
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Friday, March 28, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Key Terms 5.1
Industrial Revolution- a change on the production of goods that substituted mechanical power for human energy, beginning around 1750 in Britain and Western Europe, it vastly increased the world'is productivity.
Interchangeability of Parts- a late 18th century technological breakthrough in which machine and implement parts were standardized, allowing for mass production and easy repair.
Outwork- a method of manufacturing in which raw or semifinished materials are distributed to households where they are further processed or completed.
Limited Liability- legal protection for investors from personal responsibility for a firm's finances.
Stock Market- a site for buying and selling financial interests, or stock, in business, examples would be the stock exchanges on London and Hong Kong.
Cartel- a group of independent business organization in a single industry formed to control production and prices.
Socialism- a social and political ideology dating from the early nineteenth century that stresses the need too maintain social harmony through communities based on cooperation rather than competition, in Marxist terms, a classless society of workers who collectively control the production of goods necessary for life.
Utopian Socialism- a goal of certain British and French thinkers in the early nineteenth century, who envisioned the creation of a perfect society through cooperation and social planning.
Materialism- in Marxist terms, the idea that the organization of society derives from the organization of production.
Capitalism- an economic system in which the means of production- machines, factories, land, and other forms of wealth, are privately owned.
Proletariat- under capitalism those who work without owning the means of production.
Bourgeoisie- originally a term meaning the urban middle class, Marx defined it as the owners of the means of production under capitalism.
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