Industry Issues

Guide Questions:

1. Give a brief definition of the Industrial Revolution.
2. When did this occur?
3. Give examples of two inventions that affected life in London.
4. What are factories like?
5. What positive effects have industrialization had on the people of London?
6. What negative effects have industrialization had on the people of London?
7. How will the people of London benefit from increased industrialization?

A Trip to the Past
http://web.archive.org/web/20000816063032/http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html

Child Labor
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm

Victorian Technology
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/technolov.html

Ages of Technology
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/sci3.html

Science and Technology Timeline
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/science.html

Victorian Social History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html

The Industrial Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html

The Textile Industry
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Textiles.htm

An account of the effects of the loss of spinning work for those previously employed in "cottage industry" (doing spinning at home).
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1794woolens.html