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The Positives And Economic Impacts Of The Industrial Revolution

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Described as the rapid development of industry, characterized by the use of steam power, growth of factories, mass production of manufactured goods, and most critically, by the introduction of machinery into our daily lives; one can indisputably say that the period of the Industrial Revolution was a time of substantial and drastic transformation. Representing major change from 1760 all the way to now, it influenced everything from industrial manufacturing processes, to the daily lives of the average citizens and their communities. However, with it came its impacts and although the industrial revolution had a reasonable proportion of negative impacts of people’s lifestyle, it also had a profusion of positives impacts on their lifestyle which …show more content…

This revolution introduced many notable drawbacks in certain people’s lives which continue to pose communal threats today, along with a diversity of assistance to the same people at that time. As previously mentioned, child labour and horrific working conditions were arguably the biggest flaws of this period. After analysing “The Sadler Report”, one can observe that increasing amounts of child labor used to manufacture goods in factories with working conditions which dropped to such an extent as to increasing their working hours to 16 hours a day with one forty minute break, demonstrated not only the necessity of such labor, which eventually profits into the factories’ financial system, but the further impact of the lives of these children who were desperate for minimalistics wages. Soon, the lives of these children were dependant on these second-rate conditions of these factories, and as they were often exposed to hazardous chemicals and dangerous machinery, these conditions began to raise important questions towards the end of the revolution. The only things which were helping these workers was the natural outcomes of this period as everything was affordable because everything was mass

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