BRITISH HISTORY

British History

British History

Question

Consider the extract below, written by Michael Rosen in 1986 when he was a student at Oxford, for the undergraduate newspaper, Isis. Place the extract in the wider context of the 1968, the 'Year of Revolution' assesses the views expressed by Rosen and examines the extent to which these represented the views of young people in Britain.

Michael Rosen view helps one to identify the change in the lifestyles of young people of Britain after the industrial revolution, he highlighted that now on people and young students give exam just to have good job rather than having expertise, they do studies and worry about exams for the sake of better jobs, industrial revolution gave rise to the capitalism and this capitalism told people that they would not piddle on the school field because that would be letting the name of the school down. Industrial revolution changed the way people use to live their life by making their own decisions. Many people want to make their own decisions about how they ran their life. They want to reach those decisions by co-operating with a lot of other people doing the same thing. That's student participation in the academic sphere and student control discipline. To abdicate one's right to participate in the decisions-making process is abdicating one's right to be. Individual decision making has been ruined due to the industrialization, In order to understand the Michael Rosen speech one must understand the impact of industrial revolution of 1968, there will be an identification of some of those impact ( Macarthu, 1999, 125).

There were many people who were born in conditions that consisted of extreme violence, which also had terrible surroundings that slowly marked the starting of first industrial revolution. There were many peope who became the part of alienation because of the blind energies that characterized the new capitalist order, the sufferings became much more severe because of the high level of political and ideological maltreatment. From the beginning, it started to highlight the aspects related to fear. During the days of general fear that occurred during the French Revolution, the factors related to antagonism became severe, which created a negative impact on the old ruling elite and the new industrial bourgeoisie that was related to complete oppression. The initial history of the English working class is consequently a narration of revolt, which covered the duration of more than half ...