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Elias watched his youngest son enter the mill. The boy didn't know the feel of raw wool or the pride of a finished piece; he only knew how to clear jams in the spinning frames. This was the core of the industrial struggle—the shift from to mechanical efficiency .
It doesn't shy away from the darker side of progress, examining labor exploitation, the rise of the working class (proletariat), and the early struggles for labor rights. Why England?