The Victorian Era in England was similar to many other eras in various countries that experienced rapid industrial and economic growth—a period marked by rampant class warfare, child labor, and other social injustices. The texts of the era are plentiful, written by the factory workers and other laborers, as well as the factory owners, along with individuals outside of these constraints. Many describe the horrid working conditions, the monotony and lifeless character of day in, day out factory work, the effects this work has on families, and the progress, or the perceived notion of progress, by the business owners. Edward Mead 's "The Steam King," offers insight to the undefeatable industrious machine, recognizing the hardships the working class is burdened with, though the poem ends with some skewed hope—a vision astoundingly similar to what Andrew Ure sees in The Philosophy of Manufactures. These two texts differ, in an extreme way, in tone and the perception of life in the factories—Mead showing the human cost for economic advancement, Ure blind to the suffering of the factory worker—but both works hint that the suffering may be worth the industrial growth, thus ensuring prosperity for all. On the surface, "The Steam King" is a cry from the working class for reform within a factory system that abuses children until their death. Considering the nature of this child sacrifice, it is fitting for the poet to reference Moloch. Considered a Pagan god, Moloch is associated with
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Mothers are pictured as the care giver of the families and the ones who love their children unconditionally no matter the situation. They’ll do anything to support their family and raise their children right. In “The Queen of Mold” by Ruth Reichl, the mother in the story is pictured as the one who makes a meal almost out of nothing, just to provide and have something on the table for her family. Even though the food she cooks is moldy, this is how she demonstrates her motherly love.. In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the mother is portrayed at first as an over excited mother waiting for her over achieving daughter Dee. As the story progresses the excitement for the daughter starts to go away and her motherly love towards Dee becomes complicated because Dee thinks she is greater and much smarter than the rest. Both of the stories depict complex motherhood, in Reichl story her mother’s love becomes complicated when she cooks food for the guest and her daughter tries to save the guest from being killed, while by the end of Walker story she only has love for the one daughter that has always been by her side and that’s Maggie.
From around 1750 to 1900 Britain went through major changes or transformation in industry, agriculture and transportation that affected everybody’s lives. For some it generally improved their lives, however not all were so lucky. The industrial revolution brought with it many changes good for some and bad for others.
Life in the Victorian Era was very difficult, especially after the Industrial Revolution. In Britain, the Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700. The revolution brought a lot of positive things, for example, it improved transportation, communication, and banking, and made a big change to special powered machinery, factors, mass production, and steam engines. There were also, negative factors, like grim employment and living conditions for the lower and working class. The great deposits of coal and iron ore was essential to the Industrial Revolution. Britain was a politically stable society and the world's leading colonial power, it was a source for raw materials and a marketplace for manufactured goods. It raised a standard of living in the upper and middle class, and replaced craftspeople with machines.
The Victorian Era was a great time of prosperity for England, but not for everyone. During this time period in England, the lower classed suffered. The Industrial Revolution had many positive effect for society in general, but caused the lower class to suffer. Men’s wages declined, as a result women and children had to work to help support their families.
The industrial revolution was a time of invention, progress and opportunity. However, there was also a darker side to it all. Rebecca Harding Davis, author of Life in the Iron Mills, tells the story of ironworker Hugh Wolfe from a first-person narrator’s point of view. This unnamed narrator of an unspecified gender is part of the more privileged class of society. This person resides in the house that the two protagonists of the story, Hugh and Debora Wolfe, used to live in. The higher-ups of this time had one mindset: there were two worlds society consisted of. Those that had money and were considered ‘civilized’, and the rest of the population, working tirelessly, hardly considered humans. These upper-class characters proposed this idea with a rational, persuasive manner. Davis’ purpose was to show the reader how wrong this view was and expose the evils within the industrial society while also promising a better future. I agree with her purpose, as today’s society sees the industrial revolution as a very important piece to today’s modern world. This is true, and the industrial revolution had a huge impact on how our world operates and functions today, but the darker side of this time period, working conditions, and morality are generally never discussed.
The Industrial Revolution, which began in England, brought on many advancements in the production of textiles. This revolution that improved the manufacturing industry’s ability to produce goods in mass quantity with less labor should have been a way that the industrial worker’s lives improved. However, the opposite occurred. Engels describes a competitive working environment where workers competed to make enough money to survive with their families. Their survival only led to more suffering of neglect, poverty, and squalor. Engels book, Condtion of the Working Class in England, 1845, is a detailed account of the proletariat who were oppressed by the bourgeoisie. Engels wrote a dismally detailed account of the working class place during the Industrial Revolution in England, placing the workers in the cities as subhuman, expendable, and economically less expensive to maintain than a slave.
Throughout history, a divide has always existed between the rich and poor in society. However, during the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England, this rift reached its peak. The working class labored for long hours and received miniscule wages, whereas the bourgeoisie grew abundantly wealthy through the labor of the working class. Published in 1848 and 1854 respectively, Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto and Charles Dickens’ Hard Times both comment on these troubles. While Hard Times is a novel which tells a story and The Communist Manifesto is a short publication which tries to bring about social change, both writings offer a sharp critique of the class antagonism brought about by capitalism at the height of the Industrial
Written by Dickens in 1815, Hard Times attempts to convince readers by illustrating the fact that life during the Industrial Revolution was anything but pleasant for human beings. Centred around Mr. Gradgrind and his moderately sized family, Dickens succeeds at giving the reader a up close and personal view of what it meant to be a father, mother, man, woman, and child during the industrial revolution. Dickens also provides the reader with three central themes: the mechanization of human beings, the conflict of fact versus fantasy, and the significance of the female figure. Dickens set out with a goal in writing this novel to expose the truth on how grim the Industrial Revolution really was for the human race. I therefore think that, through examining various examples sprawled throughout the text in connection to the three themes, there should definitely be enough evidence to conclude that Dickens interpretations of the Industrial Revolution were believably similar and, in a sense, true to what people were faced with during the 18th
The non-historian scholar wouldn’t even draw the connection between the industrial revolution and the workhouses, but many of those individuals who inhabited those dreadful places ended up there due to improvement of machinery that rendered them expendable. Which is why this work is so important because readers see the side of the industrial revolution that goes against the common thought that being everyone benefited from the advancements in machinery. The content itself isn’t the work of fiction and can be authenticated by other works of literature that convey the same themes that one Mr. Charles Dickens elaborates on.
As the 1700s drew to a close, England began to rise as a sole Industrial power. Transforming the way of work, the Industrial Revolution heightened in materialized and machinery production. Migration and Immigration into the country’s cities was prominent, people moved towards an illusion of prosper. Nevertheless, working these factories was a state of forbidding conditions. The living conditions were comparable, both lacking of a sanitary, healthy status. The economy prospered in declining conditions. Consequently, the hardships resulted in growth of economic wealth.
In the late Eighteenth century, Great Britain’s shift from an agricultural based economy to one based on industry began the period known as The British Industrial Revolution. With the increase in the population exceeding four million, the small, rural industries were not able to meet the market’s growing demands for the production of textiles and manufactured goods. In an attempt to create more efficient means of production, technologically advanced machines and new energy sources, such as James Hargreaves’ Spinning Jenny and James Watt’s steam engine, were created and placed in urban factories. As these machines required no skill level to operate, countless members of the poorer class, referred to as the working class, moved to urban
“A major turning point in history”,“the era of technological inventions”, “the sustained growth of economy”, all these characterizations of the industrial revolution. Indeed, it has been always labeled as one of the major breakthroughs in the history of humanity where the steam machine, along with dozens of other inventions, came into the stage. However, when we look behind the scene, the glamorous prosperity and the technological advancement, in fact, happened at the expense of the overexploitation of resources, the unhealthy economic situation, and the forced child labor.
The author of this document was Jacques Barbot. He was born into a Protestant family around 1650 in Saint-Martin, France. Barbot’s family business was maritime trade, so he was bound to continue the family name in commerce. Barbot and his younger brother were both involved in commercial trade when they were young, his brother being a part of the African slave trade. The Barbots moved to England in 1685, after the religious tolerance of Protestantism in France was ended. In England, both brothers opened up a commercial firm. After the shipwreck of their first slave-trading voyage, the Barbots bought the Albion-Frigate in 1698 and went on
Work back in the 1700’s and 1800’s was known to be very hard and long. Working conditions in the factories were very hard because they had to work 12-16 hours, 6 days a week of nothing but straight work in the blazing heat. If you were late to work your wage would decrease even more. They didn’t get frequent breaks, they had to find a time to eat while they were working. There were some days they wouldn’t eat or drink anything all day because they had to constantly be working. Working in a factory was not flexible with schedules, so most of the time if you had to do something you were not able to do it. Accidents in the factory were very common because the machines they used were not very safe. Most workers in this factory got black lung disease from the black coal mine. If you got sick or injured working in the factory you would lose your job. Therefore you would have to find something else to do but there was not very many options to choose from. Most likely you would end up not having a job and not be able to provide for your family.