Document 17.1
The Industrial Revolution was considered a technological break through as well as a transformation of work. Owners and managers enforced strict discipline in factories and kept a clock on all their workers. Elizabeth Bentley was a twenty three year old woman worker testified in 1831 before the British parliamentary committee. As a result to this, employment for women and children were limited in 1833.
Document 17.2
Even though the industrialization helped create new work, it caused people that were considered artisans to have a decline in their weaving practices. Weavers had to sell their looms to larger manufactures that would organize a much larger factories.
Document 17.3
Although Elizabeth Bentley and unemployed weavers did not appreciate the industrialization, many growers in the nineteenth century did. One of the most important middle class value came from Samuel Smiles. Samuel was a scottish writer and businessman who wrote a book called Self-Help. This book helped guarantee a path for personal success.
Document 17.4
Karl Marx was the most prominent advocate for the new factory working class. Marx pursued most political life dedicated to organizing workers for revolution and history. Marx provided new ideas that informed much of European socialism. Friedrich Engels assisted Marx throughout his life and he became radicalized as he witnessed the dedicating social results of capitalist industrialization.
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