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 ...

The Industrial Revolution takes human beings out of millennia of poverty, backwardness, disease, and turbocharges the growth standards of living. ... immigration, reproductive rights, ...

They were very much frontier societies, reliant for their growth on immigration. At least until the later 19th century, the bulk of the immigrants came from rural Wales, giving rise to a largely ...

An article about the effect of the industrial revolution on the Welsh language, ... As the 19th century progressed, the rate of immigration from outside Wales increased.