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How Did The Industrial Revolution Lead To Progress

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The Industrial Revolution created products through 175 through 1850 in Great Britain with many wealth. Due to Great Britain’s wealth, The Industrial Revolution started to invent many working machines which led Great Britain to become very wealthy. Also because of Great Britain’s resources, The Industrial Revolution was able to produce products, and were able to exchange goods with other countries. The effects of The Industrial Revolution were wealth, population, and punishments, which did not lead to no progress. The Industrial Revolution led to child labor, working conditions, and living conditions & public health, which demonstrates that it did not lead to progress for society because the factory owners taking advantage of the workers and …show more content…

According to Frank Forrest, “In reality they were no regular hours, masters and managers did with us as they liked. The clocks in the factories were often put forward in the morning and back at night”. Therefore the factory owners made the workers work for how long they wanted the workers to, the factory owners would change the clocks. According to John Brown, “he saw her whirled round and round with the shaft - he heard the bones of her arms, legs, thighs, etc. successively snap asunder, crushed, seemingly, to atoms, as the machinery whirled her round, and drew tighter her body within the works, her blood was scattered over the frame and streamed upon the floor, her head appeared dashed to pieces - at last, her mangled body was jammed in so fast, between the shafts and the floor, the water being low and the wheels off her gear, it stopped the man shaft. Therefore the machine left the girl quite lifeless. All her bones were found broken and her head dreadfully crushed. The effect of Child Labor overall proves that the Industrial Revolution did not lead to progress because instead of sending the kids to school for their education the kids went to work at factories under unsafe …show more content…

According to the cartoon “ In response to the multiple Cholera outbreaks”, the picture shows how there are many sick people drinking off one water tap. Therefore if the people are sick then other people are going to get sick as well because all the people are drinking off one water tap which means they aren't cleaning it and the sickness is staying on the water tap. According to this official report, “The wife’s face was dirty, and her tangled hair hung over her eyes. Her cap was ill washed and slovenly put on. Her whole dress was very untidy, and looked dirty and slatternly; everything about her seemed wretched and neglected and she seemed very discontented”. So the wife looked dirty and was working under bad and unsafe conditions. Living conditions and public health did not lead to progress therefore workers got sick because they would share things not knowing the other people were sick and workers worked in places that would make them sick as

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