Find excerpts from contemporary documents recording the experiences of child labor, working hours, and sanitary conditions.

Presents an eight chapter book by Robert Thurston chronicling the development of steam power. Includes collection of illustrations and portraits.

Presents Arnold Toynbee's 1884 lectures examining industrial England through the eyes of economic theorists Malthus, Ricardo, and Adam Smith.

Reprinted from the Economic Journal, volume 2, 1892, find Walter Bagehot's writings on the new standard of value.

Andrew Ure presents the views of the manufacturers whose wealth was derived from the ownership of factories in this article from 1835.

Frederick W. Taylor's 1911 study on the efficiency and engineering systems that had influence around the world.

Modern History SourceBook presents excerpts from Thorstein Veblen's 1899 work entitled, "The Theory of the Leisure Class."