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The Impact Of Industrialization And The Impacts Of Industrialization

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Impacts of Industrialization Industrialization began when Britain was eager to invest money into creating machinery to make textiles to avoid paying India to export cotton textiles. Since the British empire had a lot of power and had widespread colonization, they had the money to invest in raw materials. In the late 1700’s Britain wanted to produce their own cotton textiles, so they began exporting the raw material, cotton, to make textiles from India. In 1750’s textile mill were created to be able to produce larger quantities of cotton textiles in a shorter amount of time through the use of more complex machinery. While India continued to make cotton textiles by hand, Britain no longer needed cotton from India when the advanced technology allowed for Britain to rapidly produce cotton. After textile machines were produced, household became urbanized when children needed to travel to factories in the cities to help produce cotton textiles. Clothes became mass produced after textile mills, allowed for the clothes to be identically produce in large quantities. Mass production of identical products causes the prices to drop because the advances in technology reduces the amount of laborers needed to make the same product. More technological advances revolutionized the work industry, people were trained to do one task repeatedly, being apart of the assembly line. Families were divided when they no longer worked together on farms, and children, women, and men took on different

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