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Industrial Revolution Dbq Analysis

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Through the years technology and life in general has improved. The industrial Revolution allowed growth of the economy. This time period provided some positive things and some negative things. The struggles of one person was the advantage of another. Society improved, but people had to suffer its consequences. Labeling this revolution as negative or positive is difficult because there were many advantages. Yet it also had many disadvantages. People's health was impacted by industrialization, labor work was harsh, but because of the Industrial Revolution many people were finally able to get a job. Throughout the Industrial Revolution, there were some really bad things that came out of it, but there were some really good things. Saying this revolution …show more content…

In the means of health affected by the Industrial Revolution the negatives outweighed the positives. In document 4, Excerpt from the testimony of Joseph Hebergam to the Sadler Committee, is about a man who tells his story of working in a dangerous job in a factory. His health was impacted vigorously for the worse of things. From being overworked day after day his lungs were damaged so badly he was told he would die within a year. His leg muscles did not function right because of being overworked. Hebergam’s legs could not even support the weight of himself. The reason why he would die within a year was because of the dusts in the factory and having an insufficient diet. Others had died because of factory incidents. Hembergam’s brother died because he was cut by a machine and died of infection. The machines were not properly protected to the point of being the cause of many child deaths. Hembergam tells of a story from the last factory he worked at and how two siblings died because they both were severely injured. In document 1, an excerpt from William Cooper’s testimony before the Sadler Committee, tells about a man who had to work from seven in the morning to eleven at night with a very small amount of time to eat whatever he had brought that would spoil. The consequences of the small lunch period with what they had brought from their home where the health of the workers. Ice packs were not yet …show more content…

In document 1, an excerpt from William Cooper’s testimony before the Sadler Committee, explains how they had to work sixteen hour days and only got forty minutes to eat lunch at noon. The work was so difficult a man by the name of Joseph Hemogram tells his story of working in document 4, Excerpt from the testimony of Joseph Hebergam to the Sadler Committee, explains how his muscles do not work properly anymore. The labor was so long with such little amount of free time his well being was the cost of having to work. Children who worked in the factories were subject to harm. There were children as young as six years old working. If a child was too young to work with machinery they would have to assist textile workers who would treat them horrific and beat them. Children could be given cruel and unusual punishments for anything. The best thing that came out of these struggles were that child labor laws were created to protect children from working and factories from harming the children (Child Labor In Factories). There is a political cartoon of a child lying on the pavement in front of a podium that says “Profit”. In the background there are a bunch of factories producing smoke (Child Laying On The Monument). This is showing how children’s lives were the cost of someone else’s profit from working in the factories. Factory owners did not care whether the children were safe or not. They cared about if they were getting as much

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