Title: Revolutions of 1848 - Wikipedia
Headings: Revolutions of 1848
Revolutions of 1848
Revolutions of 1848
Contents
Origins
Urban workers
Rural areas
Role of ideas
Sequence of main trends
Spring 1848: Astonishing success
Summer 1848: Divisions among reformers
Autumn 1848: Reactionaries organize for a counter-revolution
1849–1851: Overthrow of revolutionary regimes
Events by country or region
Italian states
France
German states
Denmark
Schleswig
Habsburg Monarchy
Hungary
Galicia
Sweden
Switzerland
Greater Poland
Romanian Principalities
Belgium
Ireland
Spain
Other European states
Other English-speaking countries
Latin America
Legacy
In popular culture
See also
References
Bibliography
Surveys
France
Germany and Austria
Italy
Other
Historiography
External links

Content: As a result of harvest failures, food prices soared and the demand for manufactured goods decreased, causing an increase in unemployment. During the revolution, to address the problem of unemployment, workshops were organized for men interested in construction work. Officials also set up workshops for women when they felt they were excluded. Artisans and unemployed workers destroyed industrial machines when they threatened to give employers more power over them. Rural areas
Rural population growth had led to food shortages, land pressure, and migration, both within and from Europe, especially to the Americas. Peasant discontent in the 1840s grew in intensity: peasant occupations of lost communal land increased in many areas: those convicted of wood theft in the Rhenish Palatinate increased from 100,000 in 1829–30 to 185,000 in 1846–47. In the years 1845 and 1846, a potato blight caused a subsistence crisis in Northern Europe, and encouraged the raiding of manorial potato stocks in Silesia in 1847. The effects of the blight were most severely manifested in the Great Irish Famine, but also caused famine-like conditions in the Scottish Highlands and throughout continental Europe.