Sunday 23 November 2008

abstract

This essay is a study on the impacts of the Industrial Revolution on the working population and their housing conditions. Using as comparison point the British industrial past and the principles and methodology of British Industrial Archaeology, I tried to map a similar route in Greece’s industrial past analysing the effects of industrialisation on the Asia Minor Refugees during the inter-war period. The short introduction to each country’s Industrial Revolution, followed by a section about the Irish immigration in England which I tried to link with the influx of the Asia Minor Refugees in Greece. The workers’ housing in England and in Greece was the topic of the fourth section. The last part of this essay is about the principles of the contemporary industrial Archaeology in England, and my supported opinion that they could be applied successfully not only in Greece, but in every country regardless the scale of its industrial past.