Week 4 Assignment – Industrialization and Social Change

Your reading assignment for the fourth week is to read the pdf packet on “Industrialization and Social Change,” found in the Modules. You will read and analyze the primary sources contained in the pdf packet and answer the following two questions: 1. In retrospect, what policies might governments have adopted to minimize the pains of industrialization? What factors acted against the adoption of such policies? 2. In a debate over how industrialization should be evaluated, what would be the arguments of middle-class liberals? Of industrial workers? Explain.