The Industrial Revolution is considered to be one of the most transformative socio-economic shifts in modern history. This is ...

Manchester is where the Industrial Revolution was born. It's also where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels lived and coined the term "proletariat." NPR's Lauren Frayer looks at the origins of an idea ...

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British ... illuminating the contributions of children to the first Industrial Revolution. It is written with great empathy for the ...