In this essay, I am going to explore a turning point in English history, namely the Industrial Revelation, in the early modern period. One particular question I want to answer is just how this single event came to drastically alter the lives of men and women of the time.
First of all what is the Industrial Revolution?
The Industrial Revolution was a historical period in the middle of the eighteenth and nineteenth century that was categorised by continuous financial growth as a result of industrialization. It saw wide alterations in almost every factor of a country (society, agriculture, technology, and many others.) These changes encouraged a key transformation in the way of life, and fashioned a current urban society that was no longer rooted in agricultural production, but in industrial manufacture. In the late eighteenth century, the Industrial Revolution had started in Great Britain and accordingly spread across Europe, North America and the rest of the world. Great Britain was able to emerge as the world’s first manufacturing nation through a union of numerous factors. Great Britain had succeeded in go through a significant preconditioning process (the Agricultural Revolution.) Great Britain had several relative benefits including its geographical position and landscape, increasing empire and worldwide trade network, growing transportation network, rich supply of natural resources, ready supply of capital for investment, available labour supply and relatively high labour productivity, government support for innovation and economic changes,