Industrialization and Child Hood Dreams
Industrialization and Childhood Dreams
Ryan Boggs
LIB316: Historical Contexts & Literature (BPC1327A)
Instructor: Katherine Ness Santana
07/09/2013
With the onset of the industrial revolution came changes in life that effected not only how people lived, but the quality of life as well..In the time before the emergence and growth of industry, goods and services were localized to small towns and villages, and the lives of the people in them revolved around things made and produced there in. In the piece entitled Hard Times by Charles Dickens, the harshness in the practice of child labor is brought to light by emphasizing the word fact and its reference to efficiency to produce. Life before industrialization, was much different for people than life after. Before industry, agriculture was the way of life.”Throughout most of the 18th century, the leading countries of the Industrial Revolution—those of Europe and the United States—were agricultural societies. Work took place mostly in or near the home, with small farmers producing food to be sold at the local market and artisan craftsmen producing handmade goods to sell to the neighbors.”( Van Tuyll, Hubert P.; Bahm, Karl, & Enright, Kelly(2011) Things in life were not so cut and dry in an agricultural socioty, there were variables that could have both positive and negative effects on the way things went, such as weather conditions, the health of animals(as they were used to do much of the harder tasks like transporting goods or plowing fields) , and even the amount of daylight as many worked from daylight to dark. Every person in a family often had specific duty's that contributed to the household as a whole. The patriarch would do most of the manual labor, the matriarch handled most of the household duty's, and children tended animals or did light field work. Industrialization changed things for many people. Not only did it make things easier to
Ryan Boggs
LIB316: Historical Contexts & Literature (BPC1327A)
Instructor: Katherine Ness Santana
07/09/2013
With the onset of the industrial revolution came changes in life that effected not only how people lived, but the quality of life as well..In the time before the emergence and growth of industry, goods and services were localized to small towns and villages, and the lives of the people in them revolved around things made and produced there in. In the piece entitled Hard Times by Charles Dickens, the harshness in the practice of child labor is brought to light by emphasizing the word fact and its reference to efficiency to produce. Life before industrialization, was much different for people than life after. Before industry, agriculture was the way of life.”Throughout most of the 18th century, the leading countries of the Industrial Revolution—those of Europe and the United States—were agricultural societies. Work took place mostly in or near the home, with small farmers producing food to be sold at the local market and artisan craftsmen producing handmade goods to sell to the neighbors.”( Van Tuyll, Hubert P.; Bahm, Karl, & Enright, Kelly(2011) Things in life were not so cut and dry in an agricultural socioty, there were variables that could have both positive and negative effects on the way things went, such as weather conditions, the health of animals(as they were used to do much of the harder tasks like transporting goods or plowing fields) , and even the amount of daylight as many worked from daylight to dark. Every person in a family often had specific duty's that contributed to the household as a whole. The patriarch would do most of the manual labor, the matriarch handled most of the household duty's, and children tended animals or did light field work. Industrialization changed things for many people. Not only did it make things easier to