D5.+Describe+social+problems+faced+by+working+class+in+western+Europe,+Russia+and+China

=__In Western Europe__= > women returned to traditional duties and left factory work
 * labor unions were formed and strikes sometimes caused violence or shut down factories

=__**In Russia**__=
 * The working class was almost the entire population of Russia which created great difficulty in changing classes.
 * Russia industrialized very late, and slowly
 * Marxism/ the Proletariat
 * Could only own personal property but not private property
 * some had fixed incomes, especially factory workers

=**__In__** **__China__**= == __Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 9 CE, 25 – 220 CE)__ __Sui Dynasty (589-618)__ __Song Dynasty (960-1279)__ __Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)__
 * Social tensions between the rich and the poor working class
 * Peasants in hard-pressed regions began to organize rebellions in hopes of gaining a larger share of the Han society’s resources
 * Economic problems led to many landowners having to sell their property
 * Large estate owners employed cheap laborers
 * Peasants led difficult lives and had little chance to improve
 * Poor harvests, famine, and revolts against Emperor Wang Mang’s rule
 * Grand Canal
 * Required millions of forced laborers who ended up revolting
 * Rapidly increasing population put strains on the land available for distribution to working families
 * Only very influential families were able to find land through favors, bribery, or intimidation
 * The Song bureaucracy devoured China’s surplus production, and efforts to raise taxes aggravated the peasants
 * Bubonic plague and disease epidemics severely decreased China’s population and caused massive labor shortages
 * Peasants in famine-struck regions organized revolts throughout China

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Meg Sweeney- the China part was great but there was not much information for the other two sections Bailey Goodwin: The Russia and Western Europe sections are lacking information, and the Russia section was a little hard to follow. Nice work. Kyana Van Houten: I agree. The China part was great, but the other sections don't have much info and the Russian section is hard to understand. Oh and you only need to include information that applies from the timespan of 1750-1914. Olivia Lillegraven: I agree there needs to be more information on the Russia and Western Europe sections, but China was thorough. Maybe add more on the people and dynasties (definitions). Josh Williams: The Chinese section was really good and easy to understand, but Russia was lacking in information. We definitley learned more than 5 bullets worth of information on Russia's working class.