Owen said that industrialization could better the lot of individuals, like the young women working in his mills, and uplift the human character through social engineering, by "removing discontent" and giving "permanent, productive employment to the poor and working classes" and thus "let prosperity loose on the country" (O'Brien 2010). Unlike the politician Disraeli, who lived squarely in the middle of the horrors and squalor spawned by industrialization, Owen lived in a relatively isolated, rural area in Scotland. While overseeing his mills, Owen was solely focused upon his own project of social engineering, taking place in...
A parallel between these two men in American history might be that of Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Ford: one man believed in creating laws to empower workers, while another believed in using the tools of industrialization to better the lives of his employees, as he saw fit.
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Everett, Glenn. "Chartism." The Victorian Web. 1997. February 15, 2010.
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O'Brien, Joseph V. "Robert Owen's Parallelogram." John Jay College. February 15, 2010.
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob50.html
How did you come to these conclusions? Need to cite this info. The factory system made sure that the factories produced the best that they could and an increased production meant an increased quantity of goods. But while certain social categories were having their living standard significantly improved, Disraeli reminds us about the price that the lower social class was paying. (Very confusing paragraph. You touch on a number
Shopping for Pleasure Consumer society in the modern sense did not exist before the industrial revolution, and the middle and upper class women who patronized the shopping and entertainment district in the West End of London from 1860-1914 were in the vanguard of the capitalist consumer culture. Erika Rappaport avoided either celebrating this culture or condemning, but attempted to illustrate its origins within the nexus of revolutions in manufacturing, retailing, transportation