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ECON 4850
Materials for Debate II

Readings:

Thomas Carlyle, "Gospel of Mammonism" from Past and Present

Thomas Carlyle, "Happy" from Past and Present

Friedrich Engels, "Results of Industrialization" from The Condition of the Working Class in England

Paul Mantoux, "The Destruction of the Peasant Village" from The Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century

Robert Hessen, "The Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Women and Children" from The Objectivist Newsletter

Andrew Ure, "The Blessings of the Factory System" from The Philosophy of Manufactures

John Fielden, "The Effects of Repetition" from The Curse of the Factory System

Karl Marx, "Machinery and Large-Scale Industry" from Das Kapital

Thomas Carlyle, "The Mechanical Age" from 'Signs of the Times'

Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor" from Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts

D.H. Lawrence, "Ugliness" from 'Nottingham and the Mining Country'

T.B. Macaulay, "Southey's Colloquies" from Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay

Related Links:

http://www.moraldefense.com/ProTech/Archives/IAD.htm
http://www.open2.net/industrialrevolution/tv_summary.htm

http://www.cis.org.au/Events/JBL/JBL97.htm