VIRTUAL SESSION VI, March 20
MODERNIZATION 2: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

This virtual session continues our work for the 19th-Century Modernization Documentary film project. This installment will deal with the Industrial Revolution. Some of your time should be spent working with the  Lecture VIII notes and the TB chapters 31 and 32 (884-891). Find materials on how the Industrial Revolution was part of the process of modernization in the 19th century. 

The posting will deal with a part of the film that presents two views of the Industrial Revolution, one by Adam Smith and the other by Karl Marx. We need materials to put those thinkers into context and to illustrate how they view industrialization. 

For your first post (Try to make it by Saturday):
1. List four events (make sure they are specific events, NOT topics) that you see as most significant for understanding the Industrial Revolution and its effects; explain your choices.
2. Suggest passages from at least two documents that illustrate positive and negative effects of industrialization. Also select at least one image for the documentary. (Check the course image collection for Industry & Society. If you can find other images on the Web so much the better. Be sure to post the URL.) Use one of your documentary quotes as a caption for the image.

For your SECOND POST  (before Tuesday's class) discuss briefly how these materials provide background for understanding the views of Smith and Marx on economic and social modernization. Suggest passages from both documents that spotlight their agreements and disagreement. Comment on some of your colleague's suggestions.

As you work, you might want to consult A Communist Manifesto Study Guide.