What were the political positions and implications that emerged from the different reactions to industrialization?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Political positions
1. entrepreneurs were genuinely motivated by vision or vocation, by religion
and charitable sentiments
a. Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919 ) of Pittsburgh epitomized that spirit
b. management—not exploitation and profiteering—was the key to
success
c. Heinz's good works went beyond the factory walls and the
employees' lives
2. Karl Marx foretold that industrialization would aggravate class warfare
a. workers would soon discover their power, realize that their labor
was the source of society's wealth, and demand their fair share of
prosperity resulting in bloody revolutions
b. prophets like Marx and the social movements he helped to inspire,
or driven by the energy of the market, employers raised wages and
improved working conditions
3. critics of industrialization longed for a lost past
a. escape from the industrial world
b. Arts and Crafts movement
4. effects on workers morale
a. workers were worse off than slaves
b. workers did not necessarily share the views of the critics
c. moral critics saw the workers turn to vices as way to escape
d. bosses in moral danger too
5. Catholicism molded the moral consensus
a. bring Catholic social teaching up to date if only to save workers
from seduction by socialism