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Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Seventh Edition
Marvin Perry, Baruch College, City University of New York, Emeritus
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Chapter 21: The Industrial Revolution
Living in a Mechanized World- While historians debate the relative misery Europe's poor experienced before, during, and after the Industrial Revolution, all agree that, for the individuals who went through it, the experience of moving from an agrarian to an industrial society was a wrenching one. The shift from the farm to the factory, from the village to the city, required workers to adjust to new attitudes towards time, new kinds of work, and new concepts of community. Reexamine the image of woman working at a spinning jenny on page 514, the image of London row houses on page 519, and the excerpt from the government report on Leeds on page 520. When you're done, create a journal describing the experience of factory life written from the point of view of a recently hired worker. What surprises you the most? Which adjustments do you find the most difficult? Is your life better or worse than it was in the country?
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