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What industrialisation looked like in the workplace
Making sense of this crazy world
26 minutes 47 seconds
4 months ago
What industrialisation looked like in the workplace
Having tried to explain why Britain was the first industrial nation and how an industrialised world began to take shape, in this episode I want to go further into what changed and not just describe what it was like for those who lived through it but show how the miserable lives of the foot soldiers of industrialisation, focusing particularly on agricultural workers, factory workers, coal miners, with a spotlight on children, was a result of the profit motive.