Will read about and explained the chain reaction resulting from the processes of the Industrial revolution. We then discussed the causes of urbanization and explored the lives of workers in factories, including the hardships of women and children. We compared and contrasted the working and middle classes of the time, and explored how the factory system and mines changed work. Finally, Will and I discussed the connections between IR workers and modern day migrant farm workers, and the Luddites and their modern day equivalent, technophobes or persons who eschew technology.