HOW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TRANSFORMED PEOPLES DAILY LIVES
Industrial revolution refers to a period where the world experienced significant innovations that led to changes in people’s daily lives, the labor, the Sanitation, and the society set up. Industrialization started in Great Britain and spread to other regions. The shifts that occurred during manufacturing still affect our world today. The industrialization revolution is associated with the development of technological innovations that resulted in economic growth. There was also urbanization leading to the movement of workers from rural areas to urban. There was a mushrooming of new towns because of the population’s shift; this resulted in economies of scale where the production of different commodities was made efficient. Families separated since the young and robust were forced to move to towns in search of paid labor.
Industrialization revolution and labor. Initially, people worked as subsistence farmers or artisans in the rural setting. Industrialization led to large-scale production; this made people move to urban areas to work in factories where women and children provided cheap labor and paid low wages[1]They offered the job for almost 16 hours a day, and the pay was low. There were many inventions, and the railroad was used as a means of transportation. The laborers organized into labor unions and negotiated for better payments improved working conditions and reduced working hours, the capital and labor had to struggle[2].
Industrial revolution and Sanitation. Because of the mass movement of people into the developed towns, hygiene was negatively affected; the people had little knowledge of their Sanitation; thus, the outbreak of diseases like cholera, typhoid, and typhus was inevitable, and the high population in these growing towns made this worse.
The industrial revolution affected the general lives of the world population, and the people had to strive and adapt to the new changes experienced in the nineteenth century, the world had to change.
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National Geographic Society. “Industrialization, Labor, and Life,” December 9, 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/industrialization-labor-and-life/6th-grade/.
[1]. White, Richard. “The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Advanced Placement United States History Study Guide,” November 29, 2011. https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/essays/rise-industrial-america-1877-1900.
[2] National Geographic Society. “Industrialization, Labor, and Life,” December 9, 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/industrialization-labor-and-life/6th-grade/.