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 ...

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 ...

Episodes of machine-breaking occurred in Britain from the 1760s onward, and in France during the 1789 revolution. As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being ...

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 ...