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Welcome back to another edition of my blog.
This week we have been asked to take a look at several articles relating to the Industrial Revolution, specifically in Great Britain.
http://victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html
We were asked to take a look at those links just provided, and to gain insight into different observations on the times and to see if anything intriguing came forth to go against anything we knew about the Industrial Revolution.
Honestly, with the prior knowledge I have of the time period, however limited it may be in scope to some, nothing interesting jumped out to grab at my attention, in fact, the articles were along the lines of what I remembered and expected from the time period described to us. Each of the articles talks about the poor conditions of the workplace and living accommodation that were characteristic of the Industrial Revolution. The articles seemed completely legitimate to me and were very believable as the authors of each were recorded as having been real as well as being close to the situations they described in each of their respective writings. Both of the articles seemed to show bias in some manner, but is allowable in each case for the sheer sake of perspective, and actually adds to the credibility of the writings. As far as whether these writings are accurately demonstrative of the typical atmosphere of the Industrial Era, the answer is a resounding “yes”. In many of the writings of authors from the same era, there is a tendency to portray situations as-is in every case. Each of the writings reviewed for this post very plainly described the situations as would have been typical of the era.
Next we were asked an interesting question of comparison on the topic of the industrial working class and urban poor in the modern era. Honestly, between the different things we have read and studied, regarding different generations of urban working poor, all urban working poor share similarities. In each case we have seen so far, the urban workers have been same minded in their writings. Carolina, in Child of the Dark, was a realist writer who wrote about her life without dramatic embellishment in almost all cases, which matches up with the writing style of many other Industrial authors throughout history.
Well, this is the end of yet another blog, thanks for reading.
See ya next time.
God Bless,
Ryan
