Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Capital vs
Labour
- Industrial Revolution
- Protestant Work Ethic
- Calvinism
- "We have all of us, one
human human heart"-
equality. Christian
teaching vs. Calvinism
(pre-destined/elite)
- Lack of communication
- Masters' stories differ from those of the 'hands'
- They are exasperated as the
hands do not understand that the
price of cotton on the market has
dropped and as a result the
millowners are forced to cut their
spendings
- Cruelty
- At first, Thornton feels it
is the worker's own fault
that they are poor and
they deserve to live in
horrid conditions
- He was once one of
them, and has made a
name for himself- Self
made man
- ignorant in not seeing
that an element of luck
is involved, and that it
doesn't happen to
everybody
- Poor working conditions and Wages
- Thornton sets up a worker's cantine
- Rebellion
- Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and
justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy
arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly
used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on
behalf of others more helpless.” - Margaret