Analysis of the industrial revolution with comparisons of various "fathers" of the modern industrial machine such as: John Locke, Karl Marx and Robert Owens.

The industrial revolution, a nearly century long progression, brought forth unprecedented and unheard of technological, sociological and economical changes throughout Europe and the civilized world. It's feasible to say that laissez faire economic thinking is the forefather and beginning of the industrial revolution. Laissez faire economics embraced free trade, advocated private enterprise and was a direct contradiction to the centuries of aristocratic domination of trade. It opened up a whole new world, the birth of …

…of individuals. It was truly the beginning of the modern country, and the modern world. Resources: -<Tab/>Brophy, James M, Epstein Steven; Perspectives from The Past, Volume 2, <Tab/>W.W Norton & Company, Inc, NY, NY 1998 -<Tab/>Coffin, Judith G, Stacy, Robert C; Western Civilization, Volume 2 <Tab/>W.W Norton & Company, Inc, NY, NY 2002