... desires and necessities become increasingly cosmopolitan, so much so, that local industries are incapable of producing commodities at such high demand and are forced to stop trading and move to the more populous cities to find alternative work3. Even this early on in the revolution, the working class are forced by the emergence of industrial capitalism to relocate to the cities if they want to survive in this new world. That is not an act of democracy and freedom. Hence, we come to the arrival of populated urban cities and 'the factory', where machines compensate for human labour, resulting in mass production.4 The factory can be seen as the foundation to our problems. From the bourgeoisie perspective, the factory was their key to profit and happiness. However, the working class (who were the majority in Britain) saw the factory as a prison, in which they were forced to work in ...

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