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How Did The Industrial Revolution Influence The Growth Of European Cities

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Discussion Question #1 The growth of the Industrial Revolution influenced the growth of European cities when prostitution, child labor, poverty, and woman abuse escalated. The cities no longer went by the things they used to such as their religion, values, and patterns of their behavior. It was no longer a democracy since the Industrial Revolution changes the peoples life style. It changed the the cities socially and financially. Many people had worked in their homes. Both men and women worked a trade, and both men and women worked at home. Family members worked from different ages, making money for the household. The jobs that the families had, also had an affect on them at home. The children were able to take on more responsibilities, with having to help out …show more content…

Equality played a part, and everyone had a role to play. The children would learn as they worked. Laws had changed during the Industrial Revolution. But the laws mainly targeted the amount of times the children were able to work, and the conditions they were working in, and also demanded that children were to attend school. It also changed families from having to communicate with other families or people within their communities, which cause a lack of trust amongst the people and and violence, and poverty took over. Things then slowly began to go back to the way they were. The men would work, while the women stood home, and the children would attend school and go home. Families were to stay amongst themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), was a well known French intellectual thinker. He in a sense said that England may have not been the best looking or in the best condition but some good came out of it, even though people lost who they were as people. Within the Marx and Engel section of the text on pages 47-48, speaks about how they were sympathetic to the working class, how the classes were separated. That the lower classes lived in a different area from the middle and

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