Summary The factory system, which emerged during the Industrial Revolution in England, revolutionized manufacturing by combining machinery, new technologies, and…

Summary Child labor was common in England before the Industrial Revolution, with children as young as 5 or 6 working…

Q&A with Caitlin Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a historian of 18th…

Caitlin Rosenthal’s contribution to the newest issue of Capitalism (“Capitalism when Labor was Capital”) makes a welcome effort to stimulate…