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Compare current industrializing countries to those developing in Europe in the 1800s.

Industrializing Nations

Factory workers in Phillipines.

Ford Vietnam factory.

Manufacturing with steel parts in Malaysia.

Textile factory in Bangladesh.

Robotic arm used to make furniture parts in China.

Assembly of smartphones in India.

Industrial park in Afghanistan.

Factors to consider when researching:

When researching, you are looking for areas in which you can compare and contrast industrializing England with the modern country you have chosen.   Factors to consider might be:

Working Conditions

Child Labor

Factories

Economy

Standard of living

Exports/Manufactured Goods

WUHS Database Resources

(username and password:  wuhs) Try any of the following keyword searches depending on your topic:  Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia, Phillipines, Vietnam

Newsela

Web Sources

Cite Your Sources of Information - MLA

For example, this is how you would cite an article from a subscription database:

AN ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE DATABASE (OR OTHER ELECTRONIC SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE)

Cite online databases (e.g. Badgerlink databases) and other subscription services as containers. Thus, provide the title of the database italicized before the DOI or URL. If a DOI is not provided, use the URL instead. Provide the date of access if you wish:

Alonso, Alvaro, and Julio A. Camargo. “Toxicity of Nitrite to Three Species of Freshwater

     Invertebrates.” Environmental Toxicology, vol. 21, no. 1, 3   Feb. 2006, pp. 90-94. Wiley Online

     Library,    https://doi.org/10.1002/tox.20155. Accessed 26 May 2009.