The first industrial revolution changed the European economy that was based of cottage industry. Skilled workers use to buy material then, take it home to produce goods then later selling them. The overall method was good, but the productivity was low, which cause costs to become higher. The longer it …show more content…
The result of the revolution was more people began leaving farm for the cities so they could make more money. This created a new social classes of people called industrial middle class. They are the one that built factories, bought machines and organized trade and the markets. They would work from 12-16 hours a week with hardly no break. The new middle class transformed the social structure by competing for wealth and power. By buying and owning their own land working off that to raise money. The middle class became wealth by knowing how to manage the means of production. The middle class grow throughout the 1800s forming two class, a upper and lower middle class of people. The upper middle class were factories, mine owners, high level employee in the government, doctors, and lawyers. The lower middle class were factory overseers and skilled workers suck as toolmakers, draftsmen, printers, and low ranking government