Colly Asfatach Thachduryany , 2211411024 (2017) THE DEHUMANIZATION OF ENGLISH WORKING CLASS AS THE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AS DEPICTED IN ELIZABETH GASKELL’S MARY BARTON. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

The overriding of this study is to investigate the values of British Industrial Revolution according to the expectation and irony which led to the dehumanization experienced by the English working class. The topic of this study is the dehumanization of English working class as the impact of industrial revolution as depicted in Mary Barton written by Elizabeth Gaskell. The objectives of this study are: 1) to describe how the English working class in the mid-19th century is dehumanized as it is presented in Gaskell’s Mary Barton, and 2) to describe how the English working class gain their humanity and equality as part of British industrial revolution advancement as presented in Gaskell’s Mary Barton. This is a qualitative research which tries to answer questions about dehumanization of English working class and the research produces data in the form of words. Gaskell’s Mary Barton is used as the object of the study. The analysis discussion was conducted by relating the data with the real phenomena in the society based on the sociology of literature theory, social psychology theory to understand about behaviours and Haslam’s theory about dehumanization. The result findings and the analysis of the study shows that 1) English working class in Manchester was dehumanized during the progress of industrial revolution era in mid-19th century through a number of attitudes and behaviours by the masters as the factory owner. The dehumanization is including the alienation which was done by the master upon the working class, the masters refused to listen the worker’s miseries, considering the workers only as machines to pile up the master’s fortunes and seeing them as rough uncultured beast. 2) The working class did attempt to gain their humanity back as presented by John Barton who joined chartist organization to create a good communication with the masters and spoke up the miseries, injustices and dehumanization that had been experienced by the working class.

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