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The Industrial Revolution
 

Conditions of the Working Class
Textiles
Leeds Woollen Worker's Petition (1786)
The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Worker

Coal Mines

Women Miners in the Coal Pits
Testimony Gathered By the Ashley Mines Commission (1842)

Health, Sanitation, & Pollution

Florence Nightingale: Rural Hygeine
Frederich Engels: Industrial Manchester
Edwin Chadwick: Report on Sanitary Conditions

Capitalism
Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of the Manufacturers (1835)

Other
The Peterloo Massacre (1819)
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal (1729)