Industrial Revolution Class Project Page 2014
Drama
10 Inventions the World Really
Needs
New Inventions & Innovations
Graph Paper PDF Generator:
Photo-Essay/ Art
The History Place: Child Labor
in America 1908-1912;
Photography of Lewis W. Hine
International Labor Rights
Forum: Stop Child & Forced
Labor
UNICEF: Child protection and
child labour
Google Images: Try using the
search terms child labor and
factories or child labor and
Industrial Revolution
Books:
Burgan, M. Breaker Boys: How
a Photographer Helped End
Child Labor.
Meltzer, M. The Eye of
Conscience.
Creative Writing
Child Labor Accounts 1883
Books:
Arnold, J. The Industrial
Revolution: a Turning Point in
History. Volumes 1 – 10.
Robinson, H. Loom and Spindle:
Life among the Early Mill Girls.
Selden, B. The Mill Girls.
Technical
Inventors & Inventions of the
Industrial Revolution
Books:
Arnold, J. The Industrial
Revolution. Vols. 1-10.
Farr, J. World Eras: Industrial
Revolution in Europe.
Industrial Comparison
Apple churns out amazing
products, but at what cost?" USA
Today 20 Feb. 2012: 6A. Global
Issues In Context. Web. 24 Feb.
2014.
China Labor Watch: Working
Conditions
BBC News: Living in China’s coal
heartland.
War on Want: China
NYTimes: Chinese factories – lost
fingers and low pay.
Huffington Post: Chinese factory
working conditions.
Research/Writing
Nike Sweatshops Behind the
Swoosh
Other articles to read &
consider:
Huffington Post: “Nike faces new
worker abuse claims in
Indonesia.”
RT: Cambodians protest Nike
factory conditions.
Economics
Encyclopedia of World Biography:
Thomas Robert Malthus
Science & It’s Times: Thomas Robert
Malthus
Human Geography: Linear vs
Exponential Growth
Musical
Union Songs: Audio clips from
a variety of songs of freedom,
work songs, songs of struggle,
protest songs, labor songs,
workers songs, industrial folk
songs, environmental songs, &
songs of equality.
Two Late 18th Century English
Labor Protest Songs:" FourLoom Weaver and "Fourpence a
Day.
Books:
Green, J. The Green Book of Songs
by Subject.
Lynskey, D. 33 Revolutions Per
Minute: a History of Protest Songs.
Phull, H. Story behind the Protest
Song.
Economics/Technical
Transparency International: Call
on Clothing Companies
Wal-Mart Global Responsibility
Report
MacLean’s: Top 50 Socially
Responsible Companies
CNNMoney: Best in social
responsiblity