Chapter 17 Documents: Document 17.1 talks about an experience of an english factory worker. The factory had hard core labor and separated workers from the final product by assigning them highly specialized and repetitive tasks. Owners and managers had strict discipline in each factory. Finally workers were wage earners and dependent on a modest and certain income for their economic survival. One worker Elizabeth testified in 1831 investigating conditions in a textile mill. The investigation limited hours in 1833 for children and women who were working. Document 17.2 talks about a generated new work in factories that destroyed older means of livelihood. In 1860, a group of artisans were in desperate straits. Many of them had to see their looms to the larger manufactures who were organizing more efficient production factories. Document 17.3 talks about the middle class understanding of the industrial poor.Elizabeth gently and the unemployed may be forgiven for not appreciating the owners of industrialization, many in the middle classes of the 19th century Europe did as well. Samuel Smiles was a Scottish writer and businessman. His making of a good book explained the paradox of industrial wealth and widespread of poverty. Document 17.4 taks abut socialism according to Marx. Marx was born to a wealth middle class family, which is now Germany and became a radical intellectual journalist. Marx found a refuge in London in 1849, were he lived until his death. Marx pursued both a political life devoted to organizing workers for revolution and more importantly for world history. His life coincided with the harshest phase of capitalist industrialization in Europe.