Industrial Revolution: Primary sources

Economic theory

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations

Andrew Ure

The philosophy of manufacturers

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

Andrew Carnegie

The gospel of wealth

Technological advances and criticisms

Thomas Savery

Uses of the fire engine

Leeds letters

Luddites

Samuel Morse

On the telegraph

J. Stillman

The last tie

The Industrial Revolution and working conditions

Sadler Report

Samuel Gompers

Germinal Zola and coal miners

Upton Sinclair

Excerpt from The Jungle

Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Jane Addams

Excerpt from Hull House

Carmen Teoli

Congressional testimony

Politics and law in the Industrial Revolution

United States Supreme Court

Northern Securities v. United States

Theodore Roosevelt

Progressive Party platform.