In the late 18th century, the U.S. was primarily an agricultural nation reliant on imports for manufactured goods. Early ...

Women's visibility as wage earners during the early Industrial Revolution was precedent setting, and has enduring relevance to our lives today. 1 Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: The Transformation of ...

Five years from 2030, when the UN Sustainable Development Goals are expected to be actualised, women's equality remains a significant challenge globally.

The Luddite movement, active between 1811 and 1816 in England, was a collective of skilled artisans—primarily weavers and ...

The industrial revolution stands out as a time of great prosperity and expansion as America entered the modern era. But what were the pitfalls of such rapid growth and who turned out to be the ...

At the start of the Industrial Revolution, canals and barges provided the solution. A pit pony in a coal mine, photograph taken in the early 1900s. There was estimated to be around 200,000 ponies ...

We are on the very edge of what will be the next industrial revolution. Manufacturing, shipping, agriculture, mining, and even railroads and transportation stand to be much more productive.

State of the Nation address, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he was creating a commission on the ...

The Industrial Revolution of the 19th century radically ... Tech," which tells the history of the Luddite rebellion of the early 1800s, when clothworkers in rural England banded together and ...