Industrialization By tom880 Period: 1750 to 1850 First industrialization (especially in Britain) 1824 Strikes legalized in UK 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act or New Poor Law Limites outdoor relief. Instead indoor relief where able-bodied poor had to work in terrible conditions to encourage them to find work elsewhere 1834 Zollverein German customs union -- first Prussia then more states joined up to 1854 1848 Communist Manifesto