In the document The Philosophy of Manufacturers, by Andrew Ure, Ure talks about the fascinating invention of machines and what they can do. He writes this in the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England where people aren’t very high on these new machines. I want to focus on the question “why was this document written”? With the invention of the machine production in factories is much higher and business owners don’t need to pay anymore to keep the high production up, so what’s wrong with this? Shouldn’t everyone see this as a win? Of course we look back now and say ‘yes of course’ what reasons would there be to not like the industrial revolution as machines have carried our society and whole world so far. The people of this don’t like them as the laborers themselves are not fans of the Industrial Revolution at this point in time. They all believe the machines will take their jobs leaving them without anything to a point where even their children will be effected. While they have good points as to not trust these machines, Ure writes this to prove those people wrong. He wants to write about what good these things can do and how it will benefit the whole country, not just business owners or any singular person. He aims this document towards everyone as not many people believe that good can come out of this. He makes points how the creation of these machines will put England at the center of this new revolution giving them much power. Ure even starts off saying that the foreign powers are jealous of what they’ve accomplished and of their wealth from these machines. Ure attempts to combat any argument that had been presented in society so far about why they shouldn’t use machines, though one thing he does not do is see from the side of the laborers on why they themselves wouldn’t like this. Ure mentions how they can do things multiple men couldn’t do themselves. How the minimalist skilled worker can use these machines and can give jobs to women as young as 16 years old. While not mentioned by Ure himself that part of it would push forwards a women’s movement, eventually, since there would be jobs that they can do since at this time women were mostly stay at home moms. Also from my understanding Ure was able to see the future of where these machines are heading as he’d already seen the development of them and how much they’ve affected society, so how much farther could these go? At times he can be a bit irrational with his thinking where he might be a bit too might on these machines, but he makes many fair points from both the perspective of business and society. In the end why did Ure write this? He wrote it to sway all those who were not in favor of advancing society to machines, those who couldn’t see any positives and were blinded by the current negatives in their lives from these machines. He wanted the people see why these were so beneficial and how much good they can do now and in the future.