The Industrial World

As a generation well past the industrial Revolution, I can only understand what effects it had back then and the foreshadowing it gives to today's generations. I nor our generation do not experience the various health issues, disease infested villages/cities, or contaminated water, the basic after math of industrialization still remains, survival. Because of that, Engle's and Chadwick's account only re-enforces what i and probably others understand of it so there was no surprise to how conditions were. Though the idea, of the extent of the problem does surprise me. And that would be the reason that makes me question Europe's Industrial revolution principles.

It is because Engle is the son of a manufacturer that makes his excerpt recognizable as well as Chadwick's; Engle experienced what became of the revolution sort of speak. They both show their concern with how they proposed the problems the public faced. For Engle, his first hand experience and witness is what makes it legitimate. However, it does seem as thought they are biased, based on the notion that there seems to be a collection of negative impacts by the revolution. Then again, that is the reason for these accounts - motivation from the revolution because of the revolutions impact. Engle and Chadwick's motivation in writing is to improve the system so the fact that it is trustworthy is reasonable. Not only that but the idea of industrialization comes with these effects. That can be compared to with the issues that Rukmani and her family had to deal with.

What similarities do the industrial working class and urban poor of our modern era show? As difficult as it may seem to expose, we actually share too much to be a modern era that is different from back the,n. Rukmani and her family barely made enough to make ends meet, which evidently means hunger. As for Rukmani's daughter Ira, she would rather resort to prostitution to of course make money than to accept the idea that she is starving, an undignified idea. Because of that, she bears a child and therefore cannot work. Not only that but one of Rukmani's son, resorts to thievery and Rukmani, believing Kunthi is stealing food almost resorts to murder. Does any of that sound similar to what our modern era poor class have to deal with; hunger, prostitution, murder, thievery, young motherhood, etc? Though we may not have to deal with the sanitation issues as mentioned by Chadwick and Engle nor the epidemics, contaminated water, and millions of deaths (only in America) that resulted from that, it is the key idea of surviving that pushes the similarities between the earlier industrial working class era and our modern class poor era which is way too close to consider the difference in time.