Before the Industrial Revolution, life had changed very little for hundreds of years. The coming of industry and factories would change life and work in Scotland, with people moving from rural ...
Every woman had her own reasons for seeking factory work. Life was very difficult on a subsistence ... Women's visibility as wage earners during the early Industrial Revolution was precedent setting, ...
The Luddite movement, active between 1811 and 1816 in England, was a collective of skilled artisans—primarily weavers and ...
The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...