Discussion - Revolutions Of Industrialization

Discussion Question - Revolutions Of Industrialization

Using two (2) readings on the Revolutions of Industrialization: (Links are provided)

• Leeds Woolen Workers' Petition (1786), attacking the effects of machinery - https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1786machines.asp
• Fredrich Engels, "Industrial Manchester" (1844), excerpts from The Condition of the Working Class in England, (1845) - https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1844engels.asp
• Edwin Chadwick (1803-1890): Report on Sanitary Conditions, 1842 - https://victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html
• Women Miners in the English Coal Pits, 1842 - https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1842womenminers.asp
• Texts on the Physical Effects of Factory Work  - https://victorianweb.org/history/workers2.html
• The Peterloo Massacre, 1819 - https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1819Peterloo.asp

 Evaluate the effects of industrialization on working people.  What were those effects? Did working class Europeans have any  mechanisms through which to challenge their social, economic, and  political position(s) in society.