► How does the industrial revolution cause the drastic transformation from the middle ages to the modern city?
► How does the Enclosure Act provide peasant labor for the factories?
► Why do peasants leave the farm to work in factories?
► Why do the cities locate near rivers?
► Why do wealthy land owners risk investing in factories?
► Why are slums created as an integral part of the factory city.
► What effect does child labor have on the family?
► Why is religion often unsympathetic to the workers?
► Why do owners favor the workers’ responses to harsh working conditions?
► What form does resistance to conditions take?
► How well has laissez faire rule of supply and demand with little government intrusion worked?