Flora Tristan's Journal Analysis

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work” (Abraham Lincoln). The overwhelming increase in population during the 18th century in the city of Manchester, is what lead to many people being faced with issues regarding their health such as no access to essential commodities, causing their lives to become destitute. The Industrial Revolution was a time in history when manual labor was shifted from using hand tools to using machinery. Doing so made labor much more simple to do for the workers.

The shifting from hand tools to machinery made labor easy enough that even children were able to do it. Thus resulting in children being sent to factories to work. Labor was then replaced by using machine powered
In Flora Tristan’s journal published in 1842, it is very evident that these lack of commodities is what caused the workers to become distraught. Such lack of necessary things made the workers not motivated to work. The quality and progress of production decreased due to the terrible conditions that the workers were facing. The journal proves that the builders’ did not see what such horrible working conditions affected all of the workers.

The workers then had no motivation whatsoever to continue working. In Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Journeys to England and Ireland, published in 1835, it is also evident that the lack of a society that had no overall control resulted in the people not realizing that what they were being offered is not what they deserved. Another huge issue that resides with this, is that the people grew homeless.The Enclosure Acts was a series of operations that involved the government occupying the open land in order to make the land legal to inhabit. These acts had a tremendous role in the Industrial Revolution due to the fact that when these acts were established, it forced many people out of their homes and occupied their land, causing the people to become