Industrialization in Manchester Lecture Paper

Columbia University Industrialization in Manchester Lecture Paper

Lecture Questions

1. What were the factors that helped Manchester take off industrially?

2. What happened to industry in Manchester in the twentieth century?

3. What was the aim of the social democratic state in providing public housing and other social programs in Manchester?

4. What has been the strategy since the 1980s for reinvigorating Manchester? 

Engels reading questions (try and include quotes)

1. What were the conditions Engels discovered in Manchester?

2. How did the wealthy try to insulate themselves from the conditions of the industrial city?

3. How could his observations lead to communist politics?

Questions for “Compost City” article and “Hulme Crescents” video

1. How was Hulme redeveloped after World War 2?

2. What were the problems in the new public housing?

3. How did young people and cultural activity transform the area? How did they help create a post-industrial Manchester?