“Romantic spirit Vs Machines“
The industrial revolution was undoubtedly a time of greatness and progress for the world lasting from 1760 to 1850,it changed the face of world but seeing how every revolution had it’s dark sides so did industrial revolution and it changed everything from industrial modernized machineries to the lives of the average citizens. The reason it is called a “revolution” is because of the drastic and major changes it brought and all these changes were followed by all sorts of reactions from the people living through that era. The revolution started off in Great Britain because of its abundant labor supply, large deposits of coal and iron ore (book page 82) but later it further expanded into other parts of the world …show more content…
“The Sadler’s commission report on child labor” lead to demands of reform and also the Factory act of 1933.The aim of this report was to lessen the misery of all the children by allowing only children above the age of 9 to work and also as less as 9 hours a day. This rapid spread on industrializing the world was a sign of progress for the world but also a sign of misery for the workers employed at all the industries and so a lot of people including Dr. James Phillips Kay, Karl Marx and Friedrich Eagles raised their voices too in forms of pamphlets, protests such as the “Peterloo Massacre” and poems to free the workers from this unfair and inhumane treatment, also to motivate them to fight for their …show more content…
He was also nostalgic for the preindustrial era, when people appreciated and admired nature over machines. William Wordsworth was also the man behind “The Lyrical Ballad “along with Coleridge as they wrote about the class differences .The idea of materialism and profit over nature and humanity bothered Wordsworth and to express this he wrote “The world is too much with us” in
The industrial revolution was undoubtedly a time of greatness and progress for the world lasting from 1760 to 1850,it changed the face of world but seeing how every revolution had it’s dark sides so did industrial revolution and it changed everything from industrial modernized machineries to the lives of the average citizens. The reason it is called a “revolution” is because of the drastic and major changes it brought and all these changes were followed by all sorts of reactions from the people living through that era. The revolution started off in Great Britain because of its abundant labor supply, large deposits of coal and iron ore (book page 82) but later it further expanded into other parts of the world …show more content…
“The Sadler’s commission report on child labor” lead to demands of reform and also the Factory act of 1933.The aim of this report was to lessen the misery of all the children by allowing only children above the age of 9 to work and also as less as 9 hours a day. This rapid spread on industrializing the world was a sign of progress for the world but also a sign of misery for the workers employed at all the industries and so a lot of people including Dr. James Phillips Kay, Karl Marx and Friedrich Eagles raised their voices too in forms of pamphlets, protests such as the “Peterloo Massacre” and poems to free the workers from this unfair and inhumane treatment, also to motivate them to fight for their …show more content…
He was also nostalgic for the preindustrial era, when people appreciated and admired nature over machines. William Wordsworth was also the man behind “The Lyrical Ballad “along with Coleridge as they wrote about the class differences .The idea of materialism and profit over nature and humanity bothered Wordsworth and to express this he wrote “The world is too much with us” in