Arguments about the Industrial Revolution by Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Carnegie, Eugene Debs, Samuel Gompers and Ida Harper among others.

The United States should remain an agricultural nation / Thomas Jefferson -- The United States should become a manufacturing nation / Alexander Hamilton -- The factories in Lowell benefit their workers / Charles Dickens -- The factories in Lowell oppress their workers / "Amelia" -- Industrial workers are worse off than black slaves / Orestes A. Brownson -- Industrial workers are not worse off than black slaves / Clementine Averill -- Concentrations of wealth harm America / Henry George -- Concentrations of wealth help America / Andrew Carnegie -- Industrialization has created the need for radical social reform / Eugene V. Debs -- Radical social reform is unworkable and unnecessary / William Graham Sumner -- Industrial trusts are harmful / Woodrow Wilson -- Antitrust laws are harmful / Walter Lippmann -- Labor unions are harmful / Henry Clews -- Labor unions are necessary / Samuel Gompers -- A defense of the acts of the Carnegie Steel Company management at Homestead / George Ticknor Curtis -- A defense of the actions of strikers at Homestead / Terence V. Powderly -- The Industrial Revolution has benefited American society / David A. Wells -- The Industrial Revolution has created inequality and other social ills / W.D. Dabney -- The Industrial Revolution has harmed society by endcourging women to work outside the home / Washington Gladden -- Society is not harmed by women's working outside the home / Ida Husted Harper -- The growth of cities must be reversed / Anna R. Weeks -- The growth of cities is inevitable and beneficial / F.J. Kingsbury -- An attack on child labor practices in industry / Edwin Markham -- A defense of child labor practices in industry / Thomas L. Livermore and a North Carolina Mill Worker -- Robber Barons contributed to social problems / Howard Zinn -- Robber barons have been unfairly denigrated / Burton W. Folsom Jr.