• How Did The World Change Due To The Industrial Revolution?
How did the world change due to the industrial revolution?
The industrial revolution changed the world in many different ways such as,
The working class, who made up 80% of society and had little or no bargaining power with their new employers. Since population was increasing in Great Britain at the same time that landowners were enclosing common village lands, people from the countryside flocked to the towns and the new factories to get work. The working conditions were terrible during the Industrial Revolution. As factories were being built, businesses were in need of factory workers. With a long line of people willing to work, employers could set wages as low as they wanted because people were willing to do work as long as they got paid.
Over population,
During the industrial revolution, people from rural areas flocked to the cities in search of factory work. While by no means easy, factory work gave a steady income. With the decline of traditional cottage industries due to competition from big factories, many rural workers ended up as unskilled. The fastest growing city during the Industrial Age was London, by the 19th century London was the worlds largest city. Overcrowded, unhygienic, the city become home to an enormous working class who received wages that were barley enough to survive on.
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drop of public health and life expectancy,
In the 18th century, urban overcrowding, poor diets, poor sanitation, and essentially medieval medical remedies all contributed to very poor public health for the majority of English people. Which eventually lead to the average life span to be 26 years of age.
Child labor,
Some machines were so easy to operate that a small child could perform the simple, repetitive tasks. Some maintenance tasks, such as squeezing into tight spaces, could be performed more easily by children than adults. Children did not try to join workers unions or go on strike. Best of all, they were paid 1/10 of what men were paid.
Working class families and the role of women,
The Industrial Revolution completely transformed the role of the family. Women could parent and also play a role in producing food or goods needed for the household. Men earned money for their families. Women took care of the home and saw their economic role decline. While many factory workers were initially women, most of them were young women who would quit working when they married.
The emerging middle class,
Gradually, a middle class, or did emerge in industrial cities, mostly toward the end of the 19th century. Until then, there had been only two major classes in society: aristocrats born into their lives of wealth and privilege, and low-income commoners born in the working classes. However new urban industries gradually required more of what we call today “white collar” jobs, such as business people, shopkeepers, bank clerks, insurance agents, merchants, accountants, managers, doctors, lawyers, and teachers.
Wealth and income,
Historians disagree about whether life improved for the working class in the first phase of the Industrial Revolution, from 1790 to 1850.
The making of the english working class that life clearly did not improve for the majority of British people: “ The experience of immiseration came upon them in a hundred different forms; for the field labourer, the loss of his common rights and the vestiges of village democracy; for the weaver, the loss of livelihood and of independence; for the child the loss of work and play in the home; for many groups of workers whose real earning improved, the loss of security, leisure and the deterioration of the urban
environment”.
Steam power,
The efficiency of steam engines increased so that they used between one-fifth and one-tenth as much fuel. The adaptation of stationary steam engines to rotary motion made them suitable for industrial uses. The high pressure engine had a high power to weight ratio, making it easier for transportation of goods.
Transport,
1844 Railway Regulation Act improved conditions in third-class. In 1883 the Cheap Trains Act made railway companies offer a greater number of cheap trains for workers. Transport became available to more people than ever before. By 1880 it became clear that speedier travel and railway timetables needed the whole country to take up a national standardised time. Before this date people used local time that varied from place to place. This meant that trains needed a tim
Creation of new jobs,
Time was no longer a restriction because of the invention of the lightbulb
Being payed hourly.
References
The industrial revolution changed the world in many different ways such as,
The working class, who made up 80% of society and had little or no bargaining power with their new employers. Since population was increasing in Great Britain at the same time that landowners were enclosing common village lands, people from the countryside flocked to the towns and the new factories to get work. The working conditions were terrible during the Industrial Revolution. As factories were being built, businesses were in need of factory workers. With a long line of people willing to work, employers could set wages as low as they wanted because people were willing to do work as long as they got paid.
Over population,
During the industrial revolution, people from rural areas flocked to the cities in search of factory work. While by no means easy, factory work gave a steady income. With the decline of traditional cottage industries due to competition from big factories, many rural workers ended up as unskilled. The fastest growing city during the Industrial Age was London, by the 19th century London was the worlds largest city. Overcrowded, unhygienic, the city become home to an enormous working class who received wages that were barley enough to survive on.
The …show more content…
drop of public health and life expectancy,
In the 18th century, urban overcrowding, poor diets, poor sanitation, and essentially medieval medical remedies all contributed to very poor public health for the majority of English people. Which eventually lead to the average life span to be 26 years of age.
Child labor,
Some machines were so easy to operate that a small child could perform the simple, repetitive tasks. Some maintenance tasks, such as squeezing into tight spaces, could be performed more easily by children than adults. Children did not try to join workers unions or go on strike. Best of all, they were paid 1/10 of what men were paid.
Working class families and the role of women,
The Industrial Revolution completely transformed the role of the family. Women could parent and also play a role in producing food or goods needed for the household. Men earned money for their families. Women took care of the home and saw their economic role decline. While many factory workers were initially women, most of them were young women who would quit working when they married.
The emerging middle class,
Gradually, a middle class, or did emerge in industrial cities, mostly toward the end of the 19th century. Until then, there had been only two major classes in society: aristocrats born into their lives of wealth and privilege, and low-income commoners born in the working classes. However new urban industries gradually required more of what we call today “white collar” jobs, such as business people, shopkeepers, bank clerks, insurance agents, merchants, accountants, managers, doctors, lawyers, and teachers.
Wealth and income,
Historians disagree about whether life improved for the working class in the first phase of the Industrial Revolution, from 1790 to 1850.
The making of the english working class that life clearly did not improve for the majority of British people: “ The experience of immiseration came upon them in a hundred different forms; for the field labourer, the loss of his common rights and the vestiges of village democracy; for the weaver, the loss of livelihood and of independence; for the child the loss of work and play in the home; for many groups of workers whose real earning improved, the loss of security, leisure and the deterioration of the urban
environment”.
Steam power,
The efficiency of steam engines increased so that they used between one-fifth and one-tenth as much fuel. The adaptation of stationary steam engines to rotary motion made them suitable for industrial uses. The high pressure engine had a high power to weight ratio, making it easier for transportation of goods.
Transport,
1844 Railway Regulation Act improved conditions in third-class. In 1883 the Cheap Trains Act made railway companies offer a greater number of cheap trains for workers. Transport became available to more people than ever before. By 1880 it became clear that speedier travel and railway timetables needed the whole country to take up a national standardised time. Before this date people used local time that varied from place to place. This meant that trains needed a tim
Creation of new jobs,
Time was no longer a restriction because of the invention of the lightbulb
Being payed hourly.
References