Second Essay Setup (alternative issue)

Suggested issue: Inequality

Approach: A document set could pair descriptions of factory working conditions with a passage from Marx, an industrialist's account of his fortune, and a description of conditions in colonized parts of the world. The thesis would argue that industrialization produced unprecedented inequality both within and between nations, and that responses to this inequality (labor unions, suffrage expansion, socialist movements, eventually welfare states) shaped the political development of the modern world.