ii. The key development in the period was the growth in population. This significant population expansion was very important for economic productivity in an age in which manpower was still far more important than labor saving technology. The expansion of Europe’s population also provided for additional consumers, which meant that there was greater incentive to bring more food to market.…
The shifting from hand tools to machinery made labor easy enough that even children were able to do it. Thus resulting in children being sent to factories to work. Labor was then replaced by using machine powered…
The industrial and economic developments of the Industrial Revolution brought significant social changes. Industrialization resulted in an increase in population and the phenomenon of urbanization, as a growing number of people moved to urban centers in search of employment. Industrialization changed society from agrarian to mechanical, which means the dominant part of economical employments moved to bigger urban areas. This made a few issues for the common laborers. Living conditions amid the early periods of industrialization were poor.…
in the industrial revolution, cities grew more and more and attracted more workers. The cities…
Abundant natural resources led to the industrialization and the growth of…
Industrialization in my opinion improved peoples lives immensely because of the changes that it brought. Not only did it bring things into the history that made every day life easier but it moved the century towards a brighter future for the buyer and the seller. Meaning more jobs and more money in their pockets to buy the new things that they wanted.…
Industrialization and urbanization affected Americans everywhere. Technological developments in construction, transportation, and illumination, all connected to industrialization, changed cities forever. Cities promoted new kinds of industrial activity on large and small scales. Cities were also the places where businessmen raised the money needed to industrialize the rest of the United States. Later changes in production and transportation made urbanization less difficult by making it possible for people to buy cars and live further away from downtown areas in newly developed areas after World War II.…
Another change that happened during the Industrial Revolution was urbanization. More jobs were created due to factories being built. New jobs were created because they needed people to help manage the equipment in the factories. Workers felt like a factory job would be beneficial to them so they would move from their rural homes to more commercialized areas. There were some negative factors that came along with the urbanization. Since the factories attracted workers from many different cultures this caused a decrease in cultural values. Having a dramatic increase in population in the area also brought crimes, poverty and pollution (History,…
Changing the economy in various ways, such as Industrialization and Immigration can affect the country in either good or bad ways. Back in the late 1800’s, the economy and the country was very different than it is known to be today. Westward expansion, industrialization, presidents and their decisions, immigration, and W.W.I are some events that have occurred to have changed the economy. Woodrow Wilson passed many laws such as the Clayton Antitrust Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, Federal Reserve System, Underwood Act, Banking Reform, the 16th amendment, and the 17th amendment. The laws that the government had passed has greatly affected the United States economy.…
led to an increased demand for cheap, plentiful labor. At this point, the economy of the…
Industrialization also leaded to urbanization by creating economic growth and new job opportunities that draw people to the cities. Industrialization caught the eye of northern and western european immigrants.New immigrants started to come to the United States from various countries…
While expansion gave people ways to settle in new towns, it also drew a steady stream of workers to the city and its factories. With more people to work, the cities only got larger and needed more housing space for the extra residents; welcome the birth of the mega-city and the suburbs. The incoming people often had their entire families work in the factories, even children worked, doing jobs that larger individuals could not. Consequently a slew of civil and ethical questions followed, which would be danced around for the next century before coming to a close. While factories did usher the largest economic growth in history, poor, cramped, and dirty conditions in factories and cities brought on the rise of the first work unions and many new laws protecting workers. Another new social aspect that came from the Industrial Revolution was the middle class. Factory owners hired educated individuals to oversee the workflow, giving education a higher value and allowing common people to move into higher social status. The Industrial Revolution also saw a massive an increase in population; in the 250 year period the population grew from only one billion people to over six billion in the late 1900s…
With greater technology, factories were able to produce goods at a much faster pace. To produce goods faster, there was a requirement for a larger number of workers. The workers had to live relatively close to the factories to go to work every day. Because of this, cities began to grow in…
Because of the shortage of labor many changes occurred in the system of labor. Landowners and the rich were desperate for workers and as a result, the peasants or middle class demanded higher wages and because landowners needed workers they gave in to the demands. As a result the peasants became wealthier. The Landowners could also afford it because there were fewer workers to pay. Another change in the labor system was that labor became more mobile…
Industrial revolution: The Industrial revolution started in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. It was a period in time when rural societies around the world became urban and all manufacturing was now done in factories rather than in human homes due to the invention of basic machinery. It began in England and spread into the rest of Europe, The United States and Japan. Its foundation lies in the invention of the steam engine which was used in the mining industry and in textile fields. It replaced the human and animal power, thereby increasing the rate of production. The discovery of fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum facilitated the use of the new steam engine. Therefore, the rural society in Europe and America was transformed to industrialized…