► 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?