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...for the Week of April 17, 2000
...for the Week of April 10, 2000
...for the Week of April 3, 2000
As the political world was turned on its head by the sans-coullotes, great economic changes waited in the wings. In England, where political stability reigned since the Glorious Revolution, the changes in agriculture fueled a rise in population. To meet the demand of the people, technology and innovation accelerated both the method and pace of production. The cottage industry gradually became early factories, which put out a greater quantity of goods with fewer and less-skilled workers. It was a bargain for those that had the capital to invest in early factories, particularly in the textile field. But for workers, many who migrated from the fields that no longer required their work, the urban world was dark and full of doom. These economic changes produced new ideas, some of which attempted to describe what was happening and others that hoped to change it.
Letter from textile workers in Leeds protesting machines, 1786 Letter from Leeds factory owners who respond, 1788 The Cry of the Children, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Industrial Revolution Documents The Iron Law of Wages, David Ricardo Principles of Communism, Karl Marx
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When industrialism began to emerge, the change caught many
between a rock and a hard place. English author Charles Dickens
penned books such as Oliver Twist and David Copperfield that
used industrialism as a backdrop.