Wealth Gaps Between Workers And Higher Classes During The Industrial Revolution

At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, wealth gaps between workers and higher classes were significant, but after reforms allowed for better conditions, the classes began to even out. The low wages of the workers led to minimal availability of resources for them, ultimately leading them to a poor lifestyle. Some of these conditions caused lower class members to revolt against additional taxes, such as the Corn Laws (Document 4). Gaining little to no wages as part of the lower class and unable to afford the taxes, the higher classes demanded taxes on these goods, oblivious to the low wages of the working class. As well as this, the people of the lower class in general suffered through hardships. A visitor to Manchester observed that