The industrial revolution stands out as a time of great prosperity and expansion as America entered the modern era. But what were the pitfalls of such rapid growth and who turned out to be the ...

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Women's visibility as wage earners during the early Industrial Revolution was precedent setting, and has enduring relevance to our lives today. 1 Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: The Transformation of ...

The early part of the Industrial Revolution may have exacerbated these conditions. Housing in factory cities was crowded, dirty, unheated, and unventilated. Food supplies were unreliable ...

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While every generation has its own special contributions to and experiences in society, an actor and writer named Andy took ...

At the start of the Industrial Revolution, canals and barges provided the solution. A pit pony in a coal mine, photograph taken in the early 1900s. There was estimated to be around 200,000 ponies ...

The reliance on huge amounts of coal as a fuel during the Industrial Revolution has had a serious effect on the environment. During the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, the main ...

The Industrial Revolution of the 19th century radically ... Tech," which tells the history of the Luddite rebellion of the early 1800s, when clothworkers in rural England banded together and ...