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BBC - History - Industrialisation : Excellent information and some fun games to try when you are finished researching.
MSN Encarta - Industrial Revolution
Encyclopaedia of British History: Textile Industry
The Open Door Web Site : History : The Industrial Revolution : Introduction : Lots of topics
Industrial Revolution Resources
The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848
NM's Creative Impulse.. Industry
The Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century
Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England by Arnold Toynbee: A tough read, but full of information.
Lesson: Industrial Revolution (Women in World History Curriculum)
Modern History Sourcebook: Women Miners in the English Coal Pits : Primary Source
Industrial Revolution Internet Scavenger Hunt
The
National Archives Learning Curve | Victorian Britain |Mining
WORKING CONDITIONS and LIFE OF WORKERS
Victorian Social History: An Overview : LOOK HERE!
The Life of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England
The Life of the Industrial Worker in England
The Open Door Web Site : History : The Industrial Revolution : Working Conditions and Urban Conditions
Living and Working Conditions During the Industrial Revolution: Good site.
Tenement Museum New York : Would you want to live here?
The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century Britain
Life of Ninteenth-Century Workers : Information given Before the Sadler Committee * Mr. Cobbett's Discovery * The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers * A Cotton Manufacturer on Hours of Labor * Opposition to the Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill * The Benefit of the Factory Legislation * Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission ...
Disease during the Industrial Revolution
Victorian Occupations: Life and Labor in the Victorian Period as Seen by Artists, Writers, and Modern Historians : Good explanation of attitudes.
Victorian Social History: An Overview : An Overview Public Health * Nineteen-Century Public Health Overview * Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions Conditions of Life and Labor * Wages, the Cost of Living, and Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money * Victorian Occupations -- Life and Labor in the Victorian Period
Chadwick's
Report on Sanitary Conditions: Edwin Chadwick was a secretary to a
commission investigating sanitary conditions
and means of improving them. The Commission's report is one of the
great reports of this epoch.
Women in the Industrial Revolution
Penny Magazine Online Home Page : A newspaper of the 1830s aimed at the working class.
The Match girls Strike : Match factory and shows how action was taken by a number of people to try and force reform on behalf of these women.
Factory Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848 :
TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE : An excellent site about a tragedy here in the USA.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820 - present : Well-organized exhibit on the history of sweatshops. Lots of excellent details about the working conditions,machines, etc.
Modern
History Sourcebook: Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls : Primary Source
Child labor in Factories During the Industrial Revolution : EXCELLENT SITE!!!
Public Record Office | Education | Snapshots | Victorian children in trouble with the law
Encyclopaedia of British History: Child Labour 1750-1850
Samuel Slater - Father of the American Industrial Revolution - Child Labor
The Mill Girls: Lowell Mills during the Industrial Revolution and Lowell National Historical Park - "Mill Girls" and Time Table of the Lowell Mills
Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution
Children in the Industrial Revolution
Child Labor in America from The History Place