Author: Karl Marx

Perspective: That machines, rather than improving working conditions, worsened them under capitalism.

Audience: Workers and people who fought to improve working conditions.

Purpose: Criticize capitalism and improve workers conditions.

Why the source is historically significant?

Because it reflects how the workers through Karl Marx, realized that they were being exploited under capitalism.

Author: Unknown

Perspective: How the industrial factories looked.

Audience: General public or people interested in industrial progress or working conditions.

Purpose: Ilustrate the rise of industrialization during the 19th century.

Why the source is historically significant?

Because it help us understand what factories were like or looked like in the 19th century.

Author: Elizabeth Bentley

Perspective: That they were too young to work long hours and it was very physically demanding.

Audience: She wanted to let the U.S. government know about her conditions at the factory, also workers.

Purpose: Expose the explotation under capitalism.

Why the source is historically significant?

To gain insight into working conditions during the Industrial Revolution.

Author: Ann Eggley

Perspective: The work is very tired, demanding and dangerous.

Audience: Government officials and workers.

Purpose: Cause a labor movement.

Why the source is historically significant?

Expose explotation and how dangerous it is to work in a mine for so long time without meeting basic needs such as eating and resting.

Author: James Watt

Perspective: Develop a more efficient process to convert steam into mechanical work.

Audience: Industries and factories.

Purpose: Increase de productivity in the factories.

Why the source is historically significant?

Because it was a big step towards the Industrial Revolution.

Author: National geographic.

Perspective: Inovations powered industrial revolution.

Audience: People interested in machines and history.

Purpose: Informing people about the importance of machines in the Industrial Revolution.

Why the source is historically significant?

Because it teaches us that machines played a crucial role in the development of industry and the world.

Author: Tsongas Industrial History Center.

Perspective: The most important thing about the Industrial Revolution was the role of women.

Audience: Students, teachers and other readers.

Purpose: Understanding how the Industrial Revolution changed the role of women in work and society.

Why the source is historically significant?

It is important because it changed the male chauvinism thinking we had towards women, letting us know that they also have the ability to do whatever they set their minds to.

Author: Slideshare.

Perspective: The process of producing goods in large quantities thanks to machines.

Audience: Children and students.

Purpose: To give knowledge of the technological advance that occurred when creating machines to produce goods during the Industrial Revolution.

Why the source is historically significant?

Because it was a process that marked the way we live and work.

Author: Stanley Engerman and Patrick O'Brien

Perspective: Analyze the economy of countries not only England.

Audience: Students, teachers, researchers and readers.

Purpose: See the cause of the Industrial Revolution from a global perspective.

Why the source is historically significant?

Because it shows that industrial development is not all of England, other countries with resources, ideas and others also influence.

Author: R.M. Hartwell.

Perspective: Economic, because it worsened the economic situation of the poor people, but in the long term it improved the quality of life.

Audience: Students, teachers, economist and historians.

Purpose: Not to be pessimistic, although it worsened after a time the quality of life improved.

Why the source is historically significative?

Because it shows us an economic or financial situation that can happen today and it is normal to be pessimistic but with effort and dedication it can be changed.

When analyzing the sources I managed to know if it was primary source or secondary source, as well as the name of each author and their different perspectives on the Industrial Revolution. Depending on the type of source and its context, I could also understand who the audience was and what the purpose of the source was. I found it very interesting that each person has a different perspective and interpretation, each source I accessed had their own part of the story.