(of the children) reflected a
resolute belief in the righteousness of their mission. (Platt, 1977, p. 3)
At the time of this movement, the context of the city was changing. The
transformation of the industrial revolution was in full force, and for the
first time the basic building block of social order was facing strains, and
Until the industrial revolution, families worked together in an
agrarian society. The majority of homes were in the rural areas, and the
entire population of some of the largest cites would fit easily into one of
today's modern sports arenas. However, in both England and America, the
advent of the factory, and urban crowing brought the population shift from
the rural countryside to urban settings. Families no longer worked
together in family farms, of small sole proprietorship's. Individual family
members of the family, sometimes fathers, sometimes mothers, or even
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