Traditions and Encounters, 4th Edition (Bentley)

Chapter 30: THE MAKING OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

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The Case for Birth Control
Margaret Sanger argues for the legalization of birth control.
( http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_sanger_1924.htm )
Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning, 1794
Account of the adverse impact that machinery had on the lives of wool spinners.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1794woolens.html )
The Peterloo Massacre, 1819
Account of the Peterloo Massacre.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1819peterloo.html )
Industrial Manchester, 1844
Frederich Engels account of an industrial city.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html )
The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899
Excerpt from Thorstein Veblen's classic.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899veblen.html )
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