NOTE:
NH186 is the printed format
This title is available for immediate download in digital format as NH186Ebook
The lessons in this unit provide insights into the enterprises and entrepreneurs that had an impact on industrialization in England, as well as the consequences for ordinary people. The unit reflects on why industrialization took a giant leap in England, why ordinary people paid a social and economic price for this development, and how social reform of the factory system and public health came about.
Grades 9-12
Lessons Lesson One: People and Machines Lesson Two: Working Women and Children in the Nineteenth Century Lesson Three: Reform: Parliamentary Debates about Child Labor Lesson Four: Consequences: Housing and Public Health