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    Mucheins became the number 1 way to manufacture something, they could make items cheaper and faster with machines. Little businesses became great empire of businesses. This impacted civilians majorly, people began to move to the cities to work in the factories because help was needed and. And the people didn't just move to a city they moved in great numbers. AS people begin to settle down people was classified into either one of three classes, upper class,middle class, and lower class. Upper class

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    Globalization has done a lot over the past hundreds of years to influence income and wealth inequality in the United States. Once different nations started to trade goods and services with one another it was a whole new world. Trading with different states is one thing but trading all over the globe became a huge deal. It is the reason some people in the world are as wealthy as they are. Starting years ago during the industrial revolution up until now globalization has caused major changes.

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    In the twenty-first century, it is not a secret that many American companies are actually setting up factories in foreign countries, with the majority located in Asia. Notable examples of this include athletic shoe companies such as Nike, Adidas, and Reebok Additionally, most people know the reason these companies make their products overseas: “cheap labor.” However, what exactly does the term “cheap labor” entail? Moreover, how are international politics and the global economy affected by this outsourcing

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    Industrial Revolution in America and Russia The industrial revolution was a tradition way to build new manufacturing, and it appeared in the eighteen century. It was included manufacturing of many goods that people need them and used them around the world such as, machines, chemical manufacturing, and elements. It is the first way that was produced the modern materials for using, and it helped people to have easier life with those productions that they provided. The most important industrialization

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    Industrial Revolution Between 1760 and 1840 the world experienced a major change. This change was a transition from domestic systems to the new factory systems. The new manufacturing procedure had both beneficial and non beneficial outcomes. The world entered the Industrial Revolution. Rural areas began to realize that they were in a dangerous game with starvation and disease epidemics; a change in manufacturing needed to occur. People were tired of making products at home and not at an efficient

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    Textile factories were not safe for working class families for the reason that the people were injured and unhealthy. A few people entered into the textile factories unhealthy which could´ve made their health issues worse. The interviewee , Dr. Holme says that the people employed were in great health. He also said that the children he had seen were all in health and that the hours they worked were not injurious to their health. John Birley says that they had good food and good beds. He also says

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    reports on conditions in cotton factories” and fourteen it titled, “Child labor in the early Industrial Revolution.” These two sources talk about the

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    In the years of the Victorian Era, England witnessed a shift from a traditionally agrarian system to a booming industrial wage economy which included the rise of factories in the nation. This drastic alteration resulted in increasingly hazardous working conditions for factory workers in particular and grueling shifts that often led to physical disfigurements. Although the conditions for these workers, including some especially young children, could be unmerciful at times, it took years for regulations

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    spinning cloth, people started to create inventions that performed tedious and laborous activities for them, allowing buisness to grow at a faster rate. The invention of steam powered engines on top of many other things allowed people to start building factories and gain large amounts of capital through their business ventures. Trade grew at rapid rates as a ''commercial

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    The textile industry began in the home through the rural rustic domestic product, the rural putting-out system and the urban workshop. As England’s population began to grow, these methods could no longer keep up with demand for cotton. The textile factory was huge for industrialism through spinning and weaving, including the mule, water frame, power loom and cotton gin. It allowed cotton to be produce at 40-100 times the output and it was much cheaper, making England the worlds leading supply of textiles

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