This text is part of a series encompassing the popular topics taught in years 1-3, aiming to develop early on those skills which form the basis of the GCSE exam. This volume examines how the Industrial Revolution was largely based on the mechanization of the cotton industry and encourages pupils to consider the effects of the cotton trade on the lives of ordinary people by looking at the social changes brought about by mechanization and the factory system, reactions to the new system and resulting reform.

 

This book is part of a book series called Past in Question .

This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, secondary school .

There are 48 pages in this book. It is a dictionary. A dictionary is a single-volume or multivolume reference work containing brief explanatory entries for terms and topics related to a specific subject or field of inquiry, usually arranged alphabetically (example: Dictionary of Neuropsychology). The entries in a dictionary are usually shorter than those contained in an encyclopedia on the same subject, but the word "dictionary" is often used in the titles of works that should more appropriately be called encyclopedias (example: Dictionary of the Middle Ages in 13 volumes). This book was published 1988 by Hodder Arnold .

This book has the following chapters: Working at home; life at home; inventions; working in a factory; pauper apprentices; factory conditions; Robert Owen; pictures as evidence; other cotton workers; plantation life; Luddism; reform; factory life and slavery; housing conditions; a housing survey; keeping clean and healthy; cholera; cleaning and cooking; looking after the children; entertainment; child workers today.