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Explication de texte North and South Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, 1855 The industrial revolution was one of the biggest cataclysms in European history. Between 1790 and 1850, the countryside of England rapidly depopulated. Huge masses of people ooded into cities for factory work, living cheek-by-jowl in unhygienic slums. In Britain, the government could barely keep up with the spirit of laissez-faire capitalism. There were almost no restrictions on child labour, working hours, or safety in the workplace. And, if progre...