Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution

  • Submitted By: abena2
  • Date Submitted: 12/04/2013 6:41 PM
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During the Industrial Revolution in Europe, changes in technology brought great changes to society. It changed the way in which many products, including cloth and textiles, were manufactured. It was called a "revolution" because the changes it caused were great and sudden. The way people lived and worked were very much different than the century before. The Industrial Revolution was a dark time which created hindrance and terrible conditions like child labor in our society.
There are those out there who would say that changes brought on by the industrial revolution as being a progress to our society. The growth of economic changes in recent years influenced our lives today. The Industrial Revolution has made it possible for as to create new inventions and technologies which sparked the growth and made it possible for as to produce goods quickly and at a cheaper price so everyone could afford. Before Industrialization began clothes were produced using the domestic system. The domestic system was a process where clothes were produced in homes by different families using their hands and not machines. As a result of that clothes were less affordable and more expensive to buy. Special thanks Edmund Cartwright and James Watt who invented the power loom and steam engine being made every day to speed up the production of goods and also the creating of profits for the economy. Also Industrialization created jobs for the working class who migrated to the cities, to earn a living wage and also provide food for their families even though sometimes progress comes at a difficult cost.
Although the Industrial Revolution has brought economy success and has also changed the growth of economy in a very positive way, sometimes this changes could create hindrance in our society. As the Industrial Revolution gathered, thousands of factories spread all over the city which caused our cities to grow rapidly and also resulted in an...

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