Paper Guidelines

Use MLA OR the Chicago Manual of Style format for citations. Just be consistent with your formatting.

Papers must be a minimum of 4 FULL pages and no more than 6 pages. The cover page does not count when numbering

your pages. You will be penalized if you write less or significantly more than the stated terms.

You must have a thesis statement in your opening and concluding paragraphs.

Use 12 point font in Times New Roman.

Double space between lines.

All margins should be set at 1 inch.

Do not use sub-headings within your paper.

Below is the list of primary sources you will use for the paper. You may access them by clicking directly on the links below.

“The Life of the Industrial Worker in Nineteenth-Century England”

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/workers1.html

“Women Miners in the English Coal Pits”

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.html

Harriet Robinsonm “Lowell Mill Girls”

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html

Jacob Riis, “Chapter XX: The Working Girls of New York” in How the Other Half Lives

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45502/45502-h/45502-h.htm#Page_234

Click on “read this book online” and then go to Chapter XX

Edwin Chadwick, “Report on Sanitary Conditions”

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html

“Texts on the Physical Effects of Factory Work”

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/workers2.html

Using all of the 6primary sources listed above, answer the following questions: What was life like in the 19thcentury for the working class? How were workers treated in the factories, mills, and coal pits? Were women and children treated any differently than the men? How did some authors describe the work/reality of these women’s experiences in comparison to the women’s attitudes? What were the sanitary conditions like for the workers? How did these working conditions affect their health? Overall, why do you think workers were treated in this manner? Conclude with your thoughts on what life was like for workers and reflect on changes/similarities to the lives of the working-class today.