Chapter 17 pg(862-877)

Lucianna Balica
2/25/16

         
         The experience of an English Factory worker was very hard. Workers were wage earners, dependent on a modest and uncertain income. A women working in the factory named Elizabeth Bently testified to get workers less hours and she accomplished her task. The hours of an employment were limited for women and children. Weaving was also common during the industrial revolution. Many individual weavers had to sell their looms to the larger manufactures who were organizing more efficient productions in factories. Many weavers were given unfair hours in the factories. A man named Samuel Smiles wrote a book on the industrial revolution and factories called Thrift. Samuel reflected a middle-class response to the Industrial Revolution. A new factory working class was formed and his name was Karl Marx. Marx was born to a wealthy middle class family in Germany and became a radical intellectual and journalist. Marx pursued both a political life devoted to organizing workers for revolution and for world history. He also studied the evolution of capitalism. Marx provided the dead that informed much of European socialism in the 19th century.