Blog #2: From Empire to Hierarchy (pg 65-66)

The first thing that really caught my attention when reading this part of chapter 3 was the statement, “The closer the home is to a factory, the less material power and social status the family living in that dwelling tends to have.” I thought this was very interesting. Back in the 18th century, living close to your work or a factory meant low social status and the assumption of not having enough money to live somewhere further. Nowadays, people like to find housing closer to their place of work. In fact, for lack of actually paying rent, a lot of people tend to live at work. I wonder what connotation we as a people would have according those 18th century theorists?