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. Must be at least 250-300 words
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