my homework assignment

The Beer Act and Industrialization

Please read: Nicholas Mason, “The Sovereign People Are in a Beastly State: The Beer Act of 1830 and Victorian Discourse on Working-Class Drunkenness,” Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 29, No. 1 (2001), pp. 109-127, available in the Readings Folder on JSTOR at:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/25058542

And discuss: Begin by selecting one of the sources Mason lists in his ‘Works Cited’ bibliography and:

A) Discuss how it fits into his history of the Beer Acts. B) State whether this is a primary or secondary source and why.

C) Discuss what this tells us about industrialization.