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How Did The Industrial Revolution Affect Society

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The Industrial Revolution drastically changed the lives of nearly every American citizen.
The revolution marked the turning point in which everyday life was improved, but hindered at the same time. Everyday life was improved because more products were being manufactured in a shorter period of time. A repercussion of the new advantage is that machines are superseding human labor. Therefore, the Industrial Revolution has prompted an advancement in terms of the pace at which work is done, but resulted in adults and teenagers begging for jobs in order to satisfy their basic needs of survival. The unemployment rate today is one of the highest in the last half of a century at approximately “9.60% in 2010” and is a negative effect of the Industrial Revolution (Sicilia). Before the Industrial Revolution, a domestic system was established. A domestic system is a “manufacturing system whereby workers make products in their own homes with materials supplied by …show more content…

The shift introduced a second system, the Factory System. In this new system, “goods are made on a mass scale by machines in a factory” (What is a Factory System?) and the human component in work is diminished. The roles of Industrial Revolution was to “improve systems of transportation, communication and banking” but instead hurt the economy (Mierzejewski). The Industrial Revolution and the Factory System are replacing human labor with machines and is consequently raising the unemployment rate. Also, the Factory System is stripping Americans of the knowledge of how to do tasks that require time. For example, not many Americans know how to build a functional and stable house without having a professional do it for them, or how to successfully grow healthy fruits and vegetables. The reason for this is the readily available assembly

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