This volume explores critical aspects of the Industrial era through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.

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• Half Title
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• Contents
• Reader’s Guide
• Industrialism and Its After-effects
• Intellectual Responses to Industrial Modernity
• Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
• Leeds Woolen Workers Petition
• Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of Manufactures
• People’s Charter
• Louis Blanc: The Organization of Labor
• Horace Mann: “The Condition of the Children of Laborers on Public Works”
• Edwin Chadwick: Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population
• Eighth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners
• Treaty of Nanjing
• Rules of a Berlin Factory
• Harriet Farley (Using the Pseudonym “Susan”): Letters from the Lowell Mill
• Josephine L. Baker: “A Second Peep at Factory Life”
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto
• Michael Faraday: Letter to the Editor about the River Thames
• William Acton: Prostitution Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects
• Giuseppe Mazzini: An Essay on the Duties of Man: Addressed to Workingmen
• Frederick Law Olmsted: Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom
• Pacific Railway Act
• Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man
• Louis Pasteur: “The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery”
• Paul Lafargue: “The Socialist Ideal”
• Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
• Jane Addams: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”
• Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism
• Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science
• Progressive Party Platform
• Joseph Stalin: “Results of the First Five-year Plan”