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Industrial Revolution (17)
Extensive excerpt from a book on the development of the textile industry in the United States, including New England and Mississippi.
http://narvellstrickland1.tripod.com/cottonmillhistory2/index1.html
Writings of various authors.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1695potato.html
Offers detailed descriptions on what it was like to work in a factory as a child. Includes biographies of factory reformers, accounts from the workers themselves, legislation passed and statistics.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
An overview of the revolution in textiles, profiling workers and reformers of 18th century Britain, related events in labor history, and describing modes of transportation and living.
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/
Tells the story of the rapid social and economic changes that occurred as Blackburn and Darwen began to expand with the growth of the British textile industry.
http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=257
The story of how the Duke of Bridgewater created the first true canal in the United Kingdom from his coal mines to Manchester with galleries of related photographs and engravings.
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/canals/
Papers on children, men, and women as factory workers as complete texts and abstracts by Douglas Galbi.
http://www.galbithink.org/fw.htm
A slide show presentation on the Industrial Revolution, including a look at inventions, labor laws, and socialism.
http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt/
The full text by Arnold Toynbee in 1884.
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev
A petition by workers complaining about the effects of machines on the previously well-paid skilled workers.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.html
Defense on the use of machines.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791machines.html
A collection of historical documents.
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/
Professor Gerhard Rempel's introduction to the Industrial Revolution.
http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/industrialrev.html
Features a range of historical information and data including research papers, images, and extracts from the Illustrated London News.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/
A sketch history of the family businesses who produced gunlocks (firing mechanisms for guns) from the 18th century to present day.
http://www.wolverhampton-gunlocks.fslife.co.uk/
Explores the advances in science and engineering and how their effects are still felt today.
http://www.open2.net/industrialrevolution/
Last Updated: 2007-01-02 16:46:29
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