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In this lesson, students examine the economic changes in antebellum America as it heads toward capitalism, examining the moral and social costs of industrialization. Works explored include Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener,” Orestes Brownson’s The Laboring Classes, Rebecca Davis’s “Life in the Iron-Mills,” and Thoreau’s polemic Walden, urging resistance to technological devastation, and his essay “Resistance to Civil Government.”
In this lesson, students examine the economic changes in antebellum America as it heads toward capitalism, examining the moral and social costs of industrialization. Works explored include Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener,” Orestes Brownson’s The Laboring Classes, Rebecca Davis’s “Life in the Iron-Mills,” and Thoreau’s polemic Walden, urging resistance to technological devastation, and his essay “Resistance to Civil Government.”
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Nature & Technology: America’s New Identity
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