Ms. Mergenthaler's Industrial 
Revolution page

You will Complete the following 
Assignment Using the sites listed below.


*Everyday we are in the lab, you will be 
required to work on the project. At the    end of each day you must turn in an annotated bibliography of the sites you used that day. 
 

Assignment--Due 3/31/03

Imagine that you are a factory worker in 1850. In a two page journal article, letter, or story tell us what your life is like, including specific details and insights about your life. This should include information about your living and working conditions, and how you feel about social reformers and unions.
 


Double space, typed, times new roman 12 font, with a list of the sites you used for research.


 

General sites about the industrial revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrevtabs1.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html#The%2520Industrial%2520Revolution
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_economy/economy/industrialisation/workshop_of_the_world_1.shtml
Sites about child labor
http://65.107.211.206/victorian/history/hist8.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
SITES ABOUT UNIONS
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU.htm
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/AmLabHist/1830.html
http://www.umwa.org/history/hist1.shtml
SITES ABOUT LABOR DISASTERS
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/haymkmon.htm
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/haymarket.htm
http://www.matewan.com/History/battle.htm
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45b/030.html
LIVING CONDITIONS
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
http://www.geocities.com/couple_colour/Worker/#gaskell
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/dickens_london.html
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/OMF/1865.html
WORKING CONDITIONS
http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/coal/workofcoalminer/workofcoalminer.htm
http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/coal/hazards/hazardscoal.htm
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/textile.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUmatchgirls.htm
LABOR RADICALS
http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/paw/paw-history.htm
REFORMERS
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PHbooth.htm
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/bakunin/capstate.html
http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/marxism.html
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/info/jb.htm