How Did The Industrial Revolution Change The World

The turn of the century changed everything all over the world. The Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th and 19th centuries and was a period of significant economic development marked by the introduction of power-driven machinery. The steam engine was use to run machinery. Before this time, a few machines were use to harness nature such as the wind and watermills, humans, and animals were depended upon as a source of power. Much like the Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution began to take shape in Britain and then spread to other countries like the United States of America. During the Industrial Revolution, many power-driven machines were invent, which was far more efficient in the industrial society. This brought greater
surplus but also with it came greater social inequality, economic growth, and pollution. The industrial Revolution was a great gain for human kind but it did not come without sacrifices to the nature environment.
This new form of production in the industrial society was far more efficient than expected; this had a mass effect on economic growth and development.
The Industrial Revolution influences social, economical, and environmental changes. The impact on the economic changed dramatically. The significant increase in agricultural development, created the growth of factories. Individuals started their own business, opened factories, and shipping companies, accumulated immense wealth. The factory owners, merchants, and shippers controlled the wealth. This urbanization caused an increase in population; people left the country, their farms, and moved into the cities in masses numbers to work in the factories. This also caused overcrowding due to rapid movement of people into the cities, poor living conditions, crowded conditions lead to filthy slums, and the spread of diseases. The working class people were poor, working for wages barely adequate to survive. Although, the industry created many new jobs, the working conditions were unhealthy. The working conditions were unsafe, dangerous, and filthy; the worker also endured harsh and poor treatment from the factory- owners. The women, and children were also hired, and suffered the harsh conditions; they were a source of cheap labor. This created division between social classes, business owners workers, the wealthy and the
poor.
During the Industrial Revolution due to the increase in population, growth in living standards, the demand for housing, technology development, good and services and the use of coal created different types of industrial pollution, which affected the quality of life for human being and living creatures. Air pollution and water pollution such as smog in the air and refuse dumped into water that is toxic became a major problem inspired by the development of the steam engine and new technological which lead to the larger factories. The industrial pollution contaminated the water, the soil and released toxins into the air. Some people believe this was the cause of acid rain soil. There were few or no laws to governor the control of pollution, this lead to inefficient waste disposal, which taint the soil that caused exposure to chronic health problems and birth defects. The air pollution cause respiratory health problems.
The Industrial Revolution created vast wealth for merchants, factory owners, and shippers who controlled the newfound wealth. This lead to social classes made up of upper class, upper middle class, lower middle class, and lower working class. The upper class consists of landowners and aristocrats. The upper middle class consist of factory owners, merchants, shippers, wealthy farmers, doctors, lawyers, and manager. Lower middle class consist of factory overseers, toolmakers, mechanical drafters, and skill workers. The lower class people were the poor factory workers, child labor, and city dwellers. The factory workers was under paid, and worked long hours, lived in shacks with had no building codes, unsanitary conditions; this lead to social class tension.
The Urban flight was one of the most significant socio-cultural changes in American history, the movement of Americans from the cities to the suburbs. During the mid-century, the population of the cities exceeded that of the suburbs, by the 1970, the ratio were even. The cause of the urban change was the urban neighborhoods were overcrowded which contributed to the increase of crime and decaying housing. During the 1970s and early 1980s, city dwellers who could afford had money moved to the suburbs for security, less crowded schools, and due to the decline of the urban neighborhoods. Some would say the whites moved from the cities to the suburbs. Many of the cities stores fell into despair as suburban shoppers abandoned the city stores for suburban malls. According to the 1990 census, the most impoverished communities in the United States were in the cities. The suburbanites commuted to the city to work. Then in the mid-1990s, as property values continue to decline in the cities, many whites returned to the cities to gentrification, to revitalize the city. Another effect of the environmental movement on the process of industrialization in the United States during the (1970s) was the transformation of immigration to the United States.
The different changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution and the environmental movement long-term effect helped shaped various laws such as the (1972) Clean Water Act, which remain controversial and the Federal Water pollution Control Act Amendments of (1972). The law prohibiting the discharge of pollutants a permit must be obtains from the government. If caught discharging waste without a permit there are heavy fines or jail sentences. There are new water federal regulatory policy and to control air pollution. The Atomic Energy Act (1954) was passed so that the government to monitor commercial and national defense use of atomic energy, which included radiation hazards, and disposal of radioactive waste. There is Clean Water Act restriction for the discharge of pollutants into nation’s waterways. The laws focus on control rather than prevention such as recycling, reducing, and reusing.
The political arguments over the environment policy as the earth continue to deteriorate caused by human activities. The natural environment is compromise in various ways such as pollution, which has a negative impact on the air, water, and soil. The reform of the U.S. health care system improved since the President Obama administration, millions of Americans have affordable health care, who never had health care before. Although, the American health care has improved, with more people having access to health insurance; American of lower socioeconomic, demographic, and diverse ethnicity often faces disparities in health and health care. Health care reform faces significant challenges, for example, people with chronic diseases such as heart diseases, diabetes, aids virus, mental illness, and hypertension often lack effective treatment to help management their conditions. There is no enough done to utilized preventive care. In America, there are unions to protect workers, wages have increased over the years there are laws and regulations to keep employees safe and protect their rights. More women hold management positions but men still make more money than women do in the same position do. There is a small number of women who are President and Vice president of major business. Minority are underpaid and hold less management positions and the rich continue to get richer, while the middle class status continue to grow closer to the lower class status. The Industrial Revolution had a ripple effect that affected many countries socially, economically, and the environment both in positive and negatives ways.