The Time Of Industrialization And Urban Areas

Another premise I found while reading this story and from my experience with small towns is that

Industrialization and urbanization that happened in America after the civil war, is a good manifestation that the country was moving along the right path. After the war, progress in terms of investments, industrialization and urbanization was inevitable. After the civil war in America, people from the south who had been displaced and the people who were free could now move to the west to work in the cattle drives, fight the Indians and also begin a new life as farmers. Social Darwinism philosophy was adopted, and everyone believed that the poor had the right to be rich. The paper will focus on the right path that the country followed in the feudalism period between 1865 and 1914 when the country became a feudal society based on the capital and not on the land.

Urbanisation is caused by people inhabiting the cities and towns moving away from rural areas. This can be a problem because it causes Overcrowding, waste accumulation, transport systems.

Growing up in the small town of Pocahontas, Iowa gives appreciation to the simplicity of tight-knit communities. With a population of 1,800 people, there is single café where local farmers enjoy a morning cup of coffee while discussing the news. Rural communities are a place where children have birthday parties at the local pizza place and teenagers’ first jobs are as detasslers. As a child, your mother knows if you got in trouble at school before you return home and everyone’s name is well known throughout the area.

“The Heartland and the Rural Youth Exodus” written by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas take readers on a journey through the small towns of America that are located in the Midwestern states like Iowa. While on this journey Carr and Kefalas use facts, and organizational moves like a map that shows readers the out-migration of non-metro counties in the Midwest. They also use great tone in their persuasive speech by using words like death knell, poverty, and even cockeyed nostalgia to persuade their readers to look at the trouble these heartland states are going through. Throughout this entire book readers are encourage to look at the diminishing populations of small towns caused by young people leaving to go to the larger cities and why they are doing so. Many Americans are able to take a stake or claim in Carr and Kefalas’s book, but there is

Urbanization in Great Britain was key to ushering in industrial capitalism to Great Britain, which brought an increased sum of money into the country. Urbanization was caused by the Enclosure movement and a decline of cottage industries. The Enclosure movement took away land from people that was once considered public land. Many people in rural areas needed land to make a living, and because they enclosed this land, many people had to move away from their cottage industries and move into urban areas to work at factories. Once there was an abundance of food and more population throughout Great Britain caused by the Agricultural Revolution, farmers began to move into cities to work in these factories. However, with more people working in

The problem arises if urbanization is needed for people to have in their life. As people begin to evolve and technology becomes more advanced, the need for space is crucial, and urbanization for people becomes the best alternative for modern life to be stable. Focusing on the benefits only, people become blind from the impact other individuals who are in between urbanization struggle with. The people that are in between the construction of urbanization have no other choice but to accept it and move. Urbanization has become a problem in the life of low-income families, but people have to follow modern life in order to survive emotionally and financially. The benefits from urbanization are high for the economically stable families and those who

At the turn of the century the rise of the urban city began to take shape. The “New Metropolis” of industrial cities in America began to produce many innovations and creations both terrible and wonderful at the same time. With the advent of steam power replacing water power the scale of the amount of goods and materials produced vastly increased. The increase of products drew men and women away from farming communities and poor countries around the world into the blooming cities.

With groups of people growing so large it became more dangerous due to other groups encroaching into their land and vice versa. People formed cities for security on the principle of “safety in numbers.”

Primarily, the Industrial Revolution had a huge effect on urbanizing the rural population and sharply changing living conditions. Although this was experienced in Austrian, French, and German lands to a lesser extent, the best example of this explosion in growth is attributed to Britain, whose urban population in London alone doubled to a total of 2,363,000 people in 50 years, while the number of major cities (having between 50,000 and 100,000 residents) tripled. To put this in context relative to the rest of the populace, the percentage of people living in towns had skyrocketed to 27.5% by 1801 (compared to 13.5% in 1670), while the total population of England and Wales increased from 5.5 million in 1700 to roughly 14 million by 1831. Moreover,

Let’s talk about small town America. It is a wild place. It can be the greatest place on planet earth, or the worse place you have ever been. Rural towns do have their ups and downs. For instance, in a house out in the country, you can take a leak off of your back porch, and no one will care.

In the late nineteenth century between 1880 and 1900 urban industrialism changed how the city looks, feels, smells and sounds. Many people flooded the cities for opportunities. There were immigrants, business men and women, poor laborers, blue blood, salesgirls, sweatshop laborers, millionaires, political officials, architects unskilled and skilled workers. Overall, Immigrants flooded the cities to work from all over the world. People from the rural areas also moved to the city and also helped change the cities appearance. Cities now had noise, pollution, traffic, slums and sanitation problems. All this growth caused more jobs, income and more money to be made and spent.

During the first exam, my knowledge strengths were in the topics of Industrialization, Urbanization and Reform. During the Industrialization, Urbanization and reform period, immigration became quite prevalent in the United States. Many immigrants came looking for a better life for themselves and their families. Unfortunately, many immigrants were forced to work longs hours for little pay in dangerous working conditions. With immigration, came backlash amongst American citizens, leading to racism and acts, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act. Meanwhile, more women and children began working during the gilded age. Inventions, such as typewrites, assisted in propelling the performance of employers in the workplace. Labor unions also unified workers

Industrialization was a period that brought about many changes. One of the changes that happened during this period was the change of working atmospheres from farms and homes to factories. Industrialization in both England and China had a massive impact on the working conditions in both countries. In England, the percentage of population living in urban areas saw an increase from 17% to 72% in during the Industrial Revolution (Watson). China’s urban population rose from 26% to 53% in 2012 which brings the total urban population to 712 million people (Juan). Among these 712 million urban residents, nearly 250 million are migrant workers from rural areas (“The Great Transition”). In this paper I will explore urban migration during the industrialization, and the numerous impacts it had on the workers in England and China during this time period.

Sociologists understand the contemporary world through the len of “Modernity”, which refers to the industrial, scientific and democratic revolutions that transformed societies from traditional to modern ones (Ballantyne, cited in Arvanitakis, 2016, p. 80). As the modernization process first arose in the West, classic sociological viewpoints assume the takeover of Western model when modernity expands around the globe (Eisenstadt, 2000, p. 1). However, as modernity happens across the world in the 20th century, the same social processes can vary distinctively from country to country due to the socio-cultural context. This gives rise to a new perspective: “multiple modernities”. This essay will demonstrate the variation of the development of industrialization and urbanization, the two keys components of modernity, in a non-Western context through evidence from a case study. Drawing on the interview with my mother, selected data will be subject of analysis and discussion together with relevant sociological literature.