Life During The Industrial Revolution

During the Industrial Revolution, practically every idea, concept, action, and lifestyle was transformed, making a new way of life for the world, which has lead to modern times. Life changed for all of Europe, specifically Great Britain and its’ people. Their entire lifestyle changed with the entrance of inventors and inventions that made their lives easier and lengthier. Everything changed in the 19th century, especially the working and living conditions of the people. Suddenly, factories had sprung up with the need of hundreds to thousands of workers. Workers, who were practically starving for a job, filled the vacancies. They needed the money to survive, because their previous well-paying jobs had been cottage industries that were taken over by the mass-producing factories. Because of the
(5)” Those hardships included how that the factories were hardly ever safe especially since they were filled to and past the capacity of the buildings. As such, many workers would be injured at work and “whatever the extent of the injury, no compensation would be afforded. (4)” During the Industrial Revolution, health and the living conditions of the people slowly increased. At the beginning of the Revolution, the poor would either live in overcrowded shacks or in the poorhouses that were specifically made “to be like a prison and to establish a discipline so severe and repulsive as to be a terror to the poor and prevent them from entering. (4*)” All toilet facilities were shared and would have open sewers in the streets that risked damp and contaminating water supplies, making disease rampant in the streets. The unions that were formed did so in protest of the horrible working and living environments by creating and enforcing public health acts that would promote hygiene and contain illness. Nearing the end of the Revolution, the health system had become much more