Friederich Engels: Industrial Manchester, 1844

The theme of the reading is about how the Industrial Manchester was like for those who worked in and lived in it. This part of the ready stuck out to me when I was reading. "If we leave the Irk and penetrate once more on the opposite side from long Millgate into the midst of the working-men's dwellings, we shall come into a somewhat newer quarter, which stretches from St, Michael's Church to Withy Grove and Shude Hill." This stuck out to me because it really shows what people thought about working-men. The working-class was not looked in that great of a light. This really shows what the people thought and how they went about showing what they thought.

This got me to thinking about what the life was like during the 1800s and how industrial life was. Industrial life seemed to be more difficult than it needed to be. But at the same time with what was going on it was not as bad as it could have been. There were harder time in history but at the time what they were going through was hard. That was a good time in history for the world because it lead to so many new things in the world of industry.

The modern  parallels that I see with this reading are have a lot to do with how the economy is right now. There are ups and downs with the economy just like how industrial changes had there up and downs. The ups really helped the community and help improved the way of life. The downs were the worse of the worse they did not help out at all, they could have been the end of everything but the ups really helped.

This relates to the text with how the first industrial revolution caused more than it really helped but because of the second industrial revolution really saved the economy. There were ups and downs with both of the industrial revolution but the downs were greater than the ups for the longest time. The downs stayed around for a long time and really effected the world and the economy. The ups of the second industrial revolution pulled the world out of the down that the first industrial revolution caused.