The Rise Of The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, which began in England, brought on many advancements in the production of textiles. This revolution that improved the manufacturing industry’s ability to produce goods in mass quantity with less labor should have been a way that the industrial worker’s lives improved. However, the opposite occurred. Engels describes a competitive working environment where workers competed to make enough money to survive with their families. Their survival only led to more suffering of neglect, poverty, and squalor. Engels book, Condtion of the Working Class in England, 1845, is a detailed account of the proletariat who were oppressed by the bourgeoisie. Engels wrote a dismally detailed account of the working class place during the Industrial Revolution in England, placing the workers in the cities as subhuman, expendable, and economically less expensive to maintain than a slave.

Child labor during the Industrial Revolution was horrid. The Industrial Revolution started in the late 18th century and ended around the mid 19th century. Although we did benefit from this industrial age, many people suffered, most notably children, because of this advancement. In today's standards, what these children went through was repulsive. It is worse to think that this kind of treatment lasted for over 100 years in some places and that it, not only just happened in one part of the world but in multiple parts of the world. One of the worst places that children had to work in were the mines. The kind of work the children in the coal mines had to do was not only dangerous but unsanitary and unhealthy as well.

When thinking of the industrial revolution, I usually correlate this transitional period to great advancements in machinery, and an increase in jobs. However, after looking past the surface of the industrial revolution, in regards to the promise of great wealth, this promise was not kept, along with other issues. I believe that a “better life” would mean that people would not have to go through the same struggles they once did before the revolution, struggles such as not having a job, money, home, etc. In addition, a better life would have to be permanent for it to truly make a difference. Unfortunately, the industrial revolution did not do as much good as people perceived it to have done. Essentially, a revolution is a changing in social order, and although this did happen, the people effected who were a part of it were given almost the exact opposite of what they expected. This essay will explore the conditions workers endured during the revolution, and discuss whether the revolution gave a better life, or a worse one.

Nobel Prize laureate and economist Robert Emerson Lucas wrote in regards to the Industrial revolution: "For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth. The novelty of the discovery that a human society has this potential for generating sustained improvement in the material aspects of the lives of all its members, not just the ruling elite, cannot be overstressed.” (Lucas 2002). The revolution itself was centred in Britain before spreading to the rest of Europe and America, and is most commonly placed within a general time period of the 18th to 19th century, though it is commonly accepted that it begun in approximately 1760 AD, and ended in 1830 AD (Ashton 1997).

A revolution is a “sudden, extreme, or complete change in the way people live, work, etc.” (Meriam-Webster). The Industrial Revolution was a shift from largely rural, handcrafted and agricultural economies to an eventual urban technology-driven economies. The revolution began in Britain in the 1700s, hit the United States in the 1800s and spread to the whole world by the 1900s.

The rich lived like fat cats in the lap of luxury, while women and children were forced to live in places such as tenement houses in awful conditions. As Charles Dickens once said in A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.”. This perfectly illustrates the contrast in perspective from high class to low class. The low class fought to stay financially afloat living off the near nonexistent wages while others flourished in the age of Captains of Industry. The Industrial Revolution was a time of both great highs and crippling lows.

Since the beginning of time when humans began to walk the Earth women have always been stuck in the household doing things to help make the house life better and easier to live in. With women being set to only do house work they began to adopt and fine-tuned many skills that had been genetically implanted and treaded in their minds throughout the centuries. For the last 150 years women have slowly inched and fought their way into the workplace alongside men. With the beginning of the Industrial Revolution a long dormant spark in women began to finally show its true colors, and women finally understood that it was time for them to move out of the home and into the workforce with women. With the introduction of factories and better way of

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There are moments that define history and there are moments that redefine history. The Industrial Revolution was the great turning point in United States history. Never before in history had a period of growth been so great and so full of powerful sustaining change. As Nobel Prize Winner Robert E. Lucas, Jr. so aptly stated, "For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth.... Nothing remotely like this economic behavior has happened before." The Industrial Revolution was time period from the 18th to 19th century where there were major changes in transport, technology, agriculture, and more. First starting in Great Britain, and eventually moving towards the United States. Before the Revolution happened, the United States had most people living on farms and there were small villages with hardly any manufacturing. The Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in everyone 's life because income increased as well as population. This time period molded society into what is seen as today. Nearly every advance in technology can find its roots in the Industrial Revolution. And not merely that, the whole setup of our society was originally molded by the advances that came from that time. No period again would change history as much as did the Industrial Revolution.

The Industrial Revolution began in 19th century England and eventually spread to Belgium, France, Germany, the United States and Japan. It was a fundamental change in the way goods were produced, due to the Agrarian Revolution and new technology; it altered the way people lived. The Industrial Revolution, a major turning point in world history, began in England because of the important pre existing economic abundance of natural resources that fueled industry, the agricultural revolution which provided the availability of workers by lessening the need for farmers, and the technological innovations made in England. The mixture of new technology and already existing resources that benefited the economy gave rise to the revolution having its start in England.

The Industrial Revolution completely changed the course of human events ever since the first machines were created. All the advancements in technology that have led us to today’s modern machines couldn’t of been possible without the initial events that sparked the very first mechanical devices. Behind these very first devices was a power source, fossil fuels, whether it was coal for trains or eventually gasoline for cars. These resources seemed to power the world into a completely new era, one where people get around by cars and ships rather than horses and sail boats. For about the past 250 years fossil fuels have been by far the main power source for the world. As time progressed from the Industrial era the effects of burning these resources were not in the picture due to the lack of technology and noticeable changes. However, today we have the capability to not only see the changes that have occurred but to also trace them back to their sources. It is with this new ability that climatologists and scientists have been able to study the effects that fossil fuels have put on our current environment. As with all major topics an opposition exists that believes that either global climate change is a naturally occurring event or that the warming effect itself does not exist. In order to view if the effects of fossil fuels have considerably influenced global climate change a number of factors and correlations need to be considered to analyze its validity. Supporters of

To begin with, the Industrial Revolution above all period of history increased the border amongst the wealthy and the underprivileged. As a result of building trust on companies to play a role in income, Capitalism was consequently determinedly renowned as the existing economy that we still customized until this day.

The Industrial Revolution is a period where people went from an agricultural society to an industrial society, meaning since the refinement of the steam engine, the invention of the internal combustion engine, the harnessing of electricity and the construction of canals, railways and electric-power lines most jobs were in factories and all hand production methods were transited to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production. During the industrial Revolution women wanted to have rights, they wanted to be able to work and earn money just like men and after some of them did have the rights to work but not everyone were happy about that, especially men. The nineteenth century industrialization and urbanization had a lot of advantages for men but did it affect women’s status? Before World War I and World War II, women didn’t have many rights, during the war women gained the right to work in factories doing “men jobs” and after the war they got some of the rights they were seeking like the right to vote and go to school.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses,” said Henry Ford. The Industrial Revolution was a stage in the evolution of human society in which a lot of change was effected, not only because of all the new technology being invented, but in the structure of society. As people started to stand up for their rights and rejecting the long-standing institution of wealth determining status, the Old Regime had to adapt. France’s Constitution of 1791 had one law that classified all adult male citizens in “active” and “passive” citizens. Wealth being the deciding factor as to who was allowed to become an active citizen. Two years later, as the revolution forced the government to become more and more egalitarian, another constitution was passed introducing universal manhood suffrage. It was only the beginning (Lindemann, p.23)

In late 1700s England ran out of wood. Wood was hugely vital to life in England because everything ran on wood, it helped people stay alive by not freezing to death because wood fueled their fires. When forests ceased to exist in England people needed to get creative, as it turns out Britain had large amounts of coal. Coal quickly became very important, and it was easy to access and just as easy to transport. Soon other life changing discoveries were made. The power loom was invented in England in 1787 and inventions such as the power loom were the kickstart to the industrial revolution. Before, everything was made by hand in Europe. Every single article of clothing was hand woven with painstaking time consuming detail, by 1850 Britain was producing 200 times more textiles than they had been 100 years previously. More inventions followed and new technology was rapidly taking over. Life altering and wondrous new inventions and discoveries were around every corner, previously the Steam Engine was invented in 1775 (of which coal was the main heat source) and flushing toilets came about in 1778.