The Growth of Industrialization

"The Growth of Industrialization" is part of a basal world history series for senior high students which is written at the seventh grade reading level. The text includes abridged primary and secondary source materials, graphs, maps, charts, and color and black and white photographs and drawings. Inventions such as Ford's assembly line, Watt's steam engine and Lavoisier's chemistry processes; theories such as those of Dalton on matter, Pasteur on disease, and Einstein on relativity; and publications such as Marx and Engel's "Communist Manifesto" and Freud's psychoanalytic papers are explored as to their influence on world culture. The text also includes thought and discussion questions, chapter summaries, and inquiry activities such as role-playing and map interpretation. JAG, 5-76. The text is designed to show how machine revolutionized industry, how workers were treated during the industrial revolution, how agriculture was changed, and what modern science has contributed through the space program, computer technology, and atomic power.