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    and merchants. People were divided from landowning elite to the peasants. Now in the great year of 1830‚ people are now industrial capitalist‚ inventors‚ laborers‚ shopkeepers‚ and factory clerks. Before‚ to be in an upper class it was based on birth‚ now it is based on education‚ so anybody can be in the upper class. We‚ as Englishmen‚ had a head start on the industrial revolution‚ our cotton industry is booming‚ we have railroads invented for fast transportation‚ and the steam engine puts a demand

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    During the Industrial Revolution‚ much progress was made in the production and consumption of goods. Because of the production and sales of so many goods‚ the entire continent prospered. This would not have been possible without child labor. Much of the progress during the Industrial Revolution was due to child labor. The benefits of child labor greatly outweigh the drawbacks because the economy improved‚ the factories gained money ‚ and the children benefitted. The factories benefitted greatly

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    Most people left their farms because of the enclosure system and moved to the towns the move from countryside to towns is call “urbanization”.Children living in urban areas during the industrial revolution had no option but to become miners‚factory workers or street kids. Most of the children were orphans (the life expectancy was not very high) and had no one to stand up for them. Mines: Around this time the demand for coal was increasing‚ because there was a shortage of flammable sources and

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    Week 2 APA Paper Lelia Hastings Hist 220 October 12‚ 2013 Debra Chittur Week 2 APA Paper The Industrial Revolution would usher in a new era type and publication‚ particular with Lord Stanhope”s invention of the all cast-iron printing press‚ doubling the usable paper size and drastically reducing the use of normal labor. In 1810 the halftone process was developed‚ allowing for the first photo to be printed on a range of full tones. This in turn introduced

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    What is Design? Q1. What was the industrial revolution? When did it occur? How did industrialisation lead to the creation of the design profession? How was the industrial manufacturing of making products new and what role did the designer play in creating new products? The industrial revolution was a movement that began in mainly in England and Germany during the 18th-19th century. It then spread throughout the world. The industrial revolution introduced the notion of function‚ ergonomics

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    Technology has revolutionized the way the world works with it being able to change standards that were set many years before. It would changed the way people would receive and send information throughout the world. Technology would start an industrial revolution during the early ninetieth century with it removing the old wood style machines and changing with metal machines simplifying many difficult tasks and creating bigger factories. With the creation of bigger factories and machines simplifying

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    Advertising during the Industrial Revolution was one major aspect that influenced America. The “Nabisco” company for example‚ produced their biscuits in a new sealed package. Nabisco’s firsts ads featured a young boy wearing a rain jacket carrying a box of waterproof packaged biscuits through the rain. Consumer foods and products became popular making business grow larger. Aaron Montgomery Ward’s catalogue business influenced Richard W. Sears to increase the number of pages the Sears Roebuck originally

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    The industrial revolution was an event that change the composition of society with marvelous technology emerging from nothing‚ but this amazing area was carried by the work forces and lives of poor children that were forced to work in dangerous conditions. Children were used in factories for their size‚ they could enter the machines and fix them without opening the machine. This would be extremely dangerous because the machine could activate in ny second and kill the child inside them. To fuel the

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    in other countries‚ and right here in the United States. I thought that the working conditions were perfectly fine here in the U.S. until my eyes were opened by the articles that I read on the internet and in books. In the beginning of the Industrial Revolution had a considerable effect on the working conditions of workers. A large labor surplus led to very low wages‚ and intense competition lowered the profit boundaries of industrialists. Industries such as the cotton trade were especially hard

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    full credit. (30 points) 2. Imagine you work in a steel mill in a large industrial city in England in the late 1800s. You live in a neighborhood with other factory workers‚ and share the same living and working conditions they do. Write a letter to your representative in Parliament expressing your opinions on what the government should do‚ if anything‚ about the plight of the English working class during the Industrial Revolution. In your letter‚ include details about your situation‚ as well as solutions

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