During the late 1800s, there was an increase in urbanization. More farmers were moving to the city and populations of urban areas drastically increased. However, urbanization negatively impacted farmers because technological advances, improvements in cities, and deteriorating conditions in rural areas caused the farmers’ quality of life to decrease.
Technological advances negatively affected farmers because they decreased the amount of labor required to farm. An example of this is the combine thresher. This machine allows for faster farming because it can harvest crops much faster than a single person. It allows one person to do three process of farming, reaping, winnowing, and threshing, quickly, by combining all three tasks into a single …show more content…
Urbanization was the cause of the excessive food because of the amount of new technology that was made from urbanization. The abundance of food also occurred because of an increase in competition between farmers. There were too many farmers trying to sell their crops causing an increased supply with the same demand as before. This helped contribute to the excessive amount of food. This caused there to be less of a need for farmers, and also decreased the number of jobs. While normally being able to produce more food is an advantage, this was a disadvantage because there was too much food for the number of …show more content…
As more people were no longer living in rural areas, they had less power in elections. Also, nationally, people began to care more about urban problems than rural problems. This meant that people who lived in the city and had manufacturing jobs had much more influence over politics compared to rural areas and farmers. (Fletcher 1). This is because due to the growth of manufacturing, it had become more import to the economy compared to farmers. Farming was no longer a job that people wanted to become and more young people looked to moving towards urbanization. This led to a huge shift in the political area as there was a lot less people in the agriculture industry. Farmers were negatively impacted by this because they had less power in the government. Overall, this change due to urbanization caused farming to become an unwanted job and vastly decreased their influence
Technological advances negatively affected farmers because they decreased the amount of labor required to farm. An example of this is the combine thresher. This machine allows for faster farming because it can harvest crops much faster than a single person. It allows one person to do three process of farming, reaping, winnowing, and threshing, quickly, by combining all three tasks into a single …show more content…
Urbanization was the cause of the excessive food because of the amount of new technology that was made from urbanization. The abundance of food also occurred because of an increase in competition between farmers. There were too many farmers trying to sell their crops causing an increased supply with the same demand as before. This helped contribute to the excessive amount of food. This caused there to be less of a need for farmers, and also decreased the number of jobs. While normally being able to produce more food is an advantage, this was a disadvantage because there was too much food for the number of …show more content…
As more people were no longer living in rural areas, they had less power in elections. Also, nationally, people began to care more about urban problems than rural problems. This meant that people who lived in the city and had manufacturing jobs had much more influence over politics compared to rural areas and farmers. (Fletcher 1). This is because due to the growth of manufacturing, it had become more import to the economy compared to farmers. Farming was no longer a job that people wanted to become and more young people looked to moving towards urbanization. This led to a huge shift in the political area as there was a lot less people in the agriculture industry. Farmers were negatively impacted by this because they had less power in the government. Overall, this change due to urbanization caused farming to become an unwanted job and vastly decreased their influence