BOOK REVIEW -FIVE STARS
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution by Emma Griffin
A look at the Industrial Revolution, its beginning, how it got started and the first fifty years.
This book is based on a collection of diaries of the working poor and their struggles to organize, better their lives, and guarantee some kind of economic rewards.
This book is a factual look into one of the most monumental achievements of the human condition and continues to unfold to this day.
EXCERPTS:
German visitor. The young Friedrich Engels spent two years in Manchester in the early 1840s.
His father had organised the stay to give his son a chance to complete his training in his own line of business – the cotton industry. But Friedrich, already deeply involved in the German Radical movement, seized upon the trip as an opportunity to conduct a first-hand study of the lives of the workers the factory employed.
The result, The Condition of the Working Class in England, shone a bright light on the most unsavoury consequences of England’s industrial transformation.
The industrial revolution was undoubtedly a time of economic opportunity, but the weight of existing social structures and cultural expectations kept women firmly shut out.
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