Adam Smith believed that the future of England was going to be great due to the all of the benefits that the Industrial Revolution was going to bring to society. He believed everyone would benefit from it no matter what class they belonged to. Smith thought that the workers were going to enjoy the work that they were doing, and would reap the benefits from producing more. This essentially was not the case when Engels visited Manchester. By this time, the Industrial Revolution and its effects on society were in full swing. I believe that Smiths vision of the future didn’t work out because he didn’t realize that the structure of the economy in England made it easy for the upper class to exploit the working class, and didn’t take into consideration some of the flaws of the human race.
I believe that the structure of the economy made it easy for the rich to exploit the working class. All throughout history there are examples of the upper classes in a given society taking advantage of the lower classes, and Smith didn’t consider this a possibility for happening. It’s basic human nature for people to act on their own self-interests no …show more content…
He thought that the workers would feel a sense of pride and fulfillment from the work that they were doing. This division of labor brought in some of the benefits that Smith was talking about like the increase of productivity, simplicity and efficiency. But he didn’t account for other potential effects that this had on the workers. result in oversimplifying the workers jobs, and essentially made them boring and tedious. This was matched with long and unfair work hours, and the workers were almost treated like animals. They had no time for their families and literally worked their lives away. I can’t imagine that after working their 16 hour shift that they did anything else except go to eat and sleep bracing themselves for the next work
I believe that the structure of the economy made it easy for the rich to exploit the working class. All throughout history there are examples of the upper classes in a given society taking advantage of the lower classes, and Smith didn’t consider this a possibility for happening. It’s basic human nature for people to act on their own self-interests no …show more content…
He thought that the workers would feel a sense of pride and fulfillment from the work that they were doing. This division of labor brought in some of the benefits that Smith was talking about like the increase of productivity, simplicity and efficiency. But he didn’t account for other potential effects that this had on the workers. result in oversimplifying the workers jobs, and essentially made them boring and tedious. This was matched with long and unfair work hours, and the workers were almost treated like animals. They had no time for their families and literally worked their lives away. I can’t imagine that after working their 16 hour shift that they did anything else except go to eat and sleep bracing themselves for the next work