How might Owen have explained the harsh conditions described by the witnesses before the Sadler Committee and the Ashley Commission? How might the Reverend Robert Willan have explained those conditions?
What light do these two documents shed on the social consequences of industrialization? How did industrialization change both work and family life?
John Bowditch, ed., Voices of the Industrial Revolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961), 82–90.