Chapter 17 Documents

Chapter 17 Documents

In chapter 17 documents the reading was about the Industrial Revolution. Within these documents they offer insight as to how a certain individual felt about a certain situation or event that was happening in their lives. Reading these documents is very insightful because I can relate to it on a personal and emotional level while the more general chapter reading is more factual and less emotional. The first document discusses the experience of and English factory worker and discusses that how while the Industrial Revolution came not only technological changes but also changes to the workforce and how people worked their jobs. Additionally, the next document goes on to talk about a certain type of job that was destroyed during the Industrial Revolution. This document is about the life of a weaver and how they their profession suffered during this time period. The next document goes on to talk about the infamous Karl Marx and how his ideas of socialism were revolutionary. The documents then go on to present the reader with images of what life was like during this time period. These images offer insight into how the Industrial Revolution impacted peoples live but also how it changed the shape of the environment. These images show the transformation overtime of how the industrial revolution had such an tremendous impact on the people living during this time.